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Albert Camus quote: "What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason..."

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare? a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute? was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart? the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves,... Leo Tolstoy
The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening. Jessi Colter
Sydney Madwed quote: "It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put..."
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. Sydney Madwed
America…is being lost through television. Because in advertising, mendacity and manipulation are raised to the level of internal values for the advertisers. Interruption is seen as a necessary concomitant to marketing. It used to be that a seven- or eight-year old could read consecutively for an hour or two. But they don’t do that much anymore. The habit has been lost. Every seven to ten minutes, a child is interrupted by a commercial on TV> Kids get used to the idea that their... Norman Mailer
Sophocles quote: "Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. Sophocles
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment,..."
Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. Friedrich Nietzsche
Don Mattingly quote: "I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that..."
I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction. Don Mattingly
An understanding, loving heart is the pinnacle of all human emotions…. We come closest to becoming Christlike when we are charitable and understanding of others. One may have many talents and knowledge but never acquire wisdom because he does not learn to be compassionate with his fellow man. Christlike love must be continuous and contemporary. Marvin J. Ashton
William S. Burroughs quote: "In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs
It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges. Danielle Steel
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is. Seth Lloyd
Fernando Pessoa quote: "All is worthwhile if the soul is not small."
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small. Fernando Pessoa
Tom Waits quote: "and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming..."
and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming... Tom Waits
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point. Daniel Day-Lewis
The [Motion Picture Production Code] took effect on March 31, 1930, 5 months too late to prevent the Wall Street Crash, but early enough to keep The Sixties from happening until approximately 1964. (When America fell victim to the British Invasion). Stephen Colbert