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«On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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«If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.»
«One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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«The person who treads on the path of truth and his mind free from negative qualities like fear, wickedness and with the desire of benefit of all, is long lived. »
Author: Rig Veda
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long-lived