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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

A dreamer lives for eternity.

Anonymous

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Richard Leide

What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?

David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.

Unknown

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walke

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkein