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A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
Golf
Billy Joel

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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Tragedies
Billy Joel

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
Love
St. John of the Cross

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Courage
Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Compromise
Samuel Johnson

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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Desire
Samuel Johnson

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Simplicity
Samuel Johnson

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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Prudence
Samuel Johnson

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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
self-esteem
Samuel Johnson

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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Bed
Samuel Johnson

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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Enthusiasm
Samuel Johnson

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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Scholars and Scholarship
Samuel Johnson

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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Kindness
Samuel Johnson

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Sea
Samuel Johnson

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
Fear
Eli Stanley Jones

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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
Blame
Erica Jong

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
Life and Living
David Starr Jordan

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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Age and Aging
Carl Jung

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Life and Living
Immanuel Kant

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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Life and Living
Danny Kaye

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
Risk
Elia Kazan

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Proverbs
John Keats

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
Life and Living
Helen Keller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun