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«A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being constantly replaced.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier (Chemist) | About: Living | Keywords: cubic, meters, replaced
«Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.»
«Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.»
«Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...»
«Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Life, Living | Keywords: carpe diem, Diem, fullest, rejoice
«Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Living | Keywords: an event
«Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.»
Author: Nicholas Negroponte | About: Computers, Living | Keywords: compute, computing
«Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.»
Author: Seneca | About: Life, Living | Keywords: at once, count, separate
«A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Life, Living | Keywords: outside
«Boy, life takes a long time to live»
Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | About: Life, Living | Keywords: boy, long time, Time to live