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Living
«An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich»
Author: Dean Allen
| About:
Adulthood,
Living
| Keywords:
adult male, circumstance, sandwich, simultaneously, tragicomic, vaguely, whiz, whizzing
«All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.»
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
behaved, continents, sandpiper, very much like
«America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.»
Author: Jane Addams
(Founder, Social worker)
| About:
America and Americans,
Living,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
America, and how, determined, hence, How We Live, largely, school, The school
«Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living»
Author: Xenophon
| About:
Art,
Living,
Meaning
| Keywords:
agriculture, best of all, high-minded, highminded, honorable, occupations, procure, procured, procures, procuring
«Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours»
«A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,?What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again?? I give some sort of answer because I don?t wish to be rude, but I don?t tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. That?s what I would do differently. I would lift weights.»
«After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| About:
Living,
Society,
Weapons
| Keywords:
allowed, guns, military, police, policed, policing, shooting, shootings, spree, The Military, The Police