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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

Good, Great, Writing

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
E. O. Wilson

America, Wonderful, Cost

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
E. O. Wilson

Dream, Makes, Mine

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. Wilson

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Sholom Aleichem

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death, Dead, Happened

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
Alice Walker

Happy, Here, Active

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice Walker

Life, Writing, Present

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem

Technology, Selfish, Live

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Writing, Worth

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz

Sad, Else, Dying

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Peace, Home, Sad

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Naomi Judd

Time, Yourself, Trying

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Hefner

Life, Short, Else

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Moliere

Life, Nothing, Passion

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
Walter Martin

God, Jesus, Remember

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lorde

Work, Reason, Rather

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
Alan Cohen

Life, Integrity, Inside

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini

Family, Money, Live

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Earl Nightingale

Mind, Used, Expression

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings

Fun, Fools, Profit

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams

Dreams, Control, Ourselves

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt

Great, Pride, Dead

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt

After, Poor, Dead

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth

Thinking, High, Adore

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller

Essential, Thrift

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen

Work, Hard, Dream

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein

Finding, Agreeing

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

Good, Career, Play

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