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Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their… — Cesar Chavez
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who… — Cesar Chavez
Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in. — Cesar Chavez
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that… — Cesar Chavez
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we… — Cesar Chavez
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. — Ulysses S. Grant
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain… — Jonathan Swift
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. — William Shakespeare
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. — William Hazlitt
The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains. — George Carlin
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. — George Bernard Shaw
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. — Oliver Sacks
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the… — John Selden
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell.… — Unknown Author
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. — Edwin Way Teale
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew. — Horace
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other… — Oscar Wilde
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished… — James E. Faust

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