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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.


Mary Wollstonecraft

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PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Life is a risk.
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W. R. FUCHS It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
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MICHAEL ENDE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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NOLAN BANKS Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
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VOLTAIRE Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
SUSANA MARTINEZ Is life not more important than anything in this world?
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One day you are just a memb...
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DAVID ARNOLD I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
SUHEIR HAMMAD You hold substance in my psyche
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RAY RHODES My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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TONY ROBBINS All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading...
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KELLY MCGILLIS Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD To stand on the
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APURVA GAGLANI This great and sombre stage is set for something
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
JET LI That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one...
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The one w...
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JOAN MIRO Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
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MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR