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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H. G. Wells

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

John W. Hanley

Custom is the great guide of human life.

David Hume

D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Danny Noonan I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What's wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don't spend too much time there. Ty Webb I'm not quite sure where they are.

CaddyShack

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Death ends life not a relationship

Morrie Schwartz

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

John Fletcher

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Johann von Goethe

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Andrew Schneider

Death is the most certain truth in life !

M.ISSAWI

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.

Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

Andrew Schneider

Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Destiny, Fate, Dreams, These unstoppable ideals are held deep in the heart of man; as long as there are people who seek freedom in this life; these things shall not vanish from the earth.

Gold Rodgers

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