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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Expectation
W. Somerset Maugham

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There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Freedom
W. Somerset Maugham

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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Fiction
Andre Maurois

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Anger
Samurai Maxim

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Life and Living
Rollo May

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Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
self-esteem
Nellie Mcclung

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A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
Exercise
David Mccord

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
Work
J. P. Mcevoy

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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
Gambling
Danny Mcgoorty

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The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Conflict
David O. Mckay

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Planning
Mignon McLaughlin

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Life and Living
Terry McMillan

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
Life and Living
Margaret Mead

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Change
Menander of Athens

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
Courage
Menander of Athens

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Choice
H. L. Mencken

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Life is a dead-end street.
Life and Living
H. L. Mencken

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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Certainty
George Meredith

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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Certainty
Owen Meredith

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Life and Living
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Arts and Artists
Henry Miller

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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Decay
Henry Miller

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Meaning of Life
Henry Miller

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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Procrastination
Henry Miller

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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
Writers and Writing
John Milton

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