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Lived Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of…
- I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a…
- Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. — Marcus Aurelius
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman