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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
Mission
Richard Bach

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How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
Mission
Richard Bach

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Leaders and Leadership
Joe Batten

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books - Reading
Stephen Vincent Benet

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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Family
Stella Benson

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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Ends and Means
Georges Bernanos

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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Sex
Bertolt Brecht

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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Past
Thomas Carlyle

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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Life and Living
Johnny Carson

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Life and Living
Jacques Cousteau

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Love
Maureen Duffy

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy
Havelock Ellis

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Life and Living
Joanna Field

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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
World
W. C. Fields

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Women
Betty Friedan

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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Tranquility
Indira Gandhi

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Oliver Goldsmith

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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Journalism and Journalists
Horace Greeley

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When we are not sure, we are alive.
Certainty
Graham Greene

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
Love
Arlo Guthrie

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Life and Living
Elbert Hubbard

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Suffering
Elbert Hubbard

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Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
Worry
Clive James

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Age and Aging
Carl Jung

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun