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The essential
conditions of everything you do must be choice, love,
passion.
-- Nadia Boulanger
1887-1979, Conductor,
Composer, Teacher
Youth is too
tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness.
The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous,
fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and
sixty.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author,
Lawyer
Don't be
afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
-- Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist,
Poet
Why does life
keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?
-- © Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American
Humorist ["Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams ("BRILLIANT THOUGHTS"
®) are individually protected by international copyright,
and appear here by special permission. All rights reserved.
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Life may have
no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I
disapprove.
-- © Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American
Humorist ["Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams ("BRILLIANT THOUGHTS"
®) are individually protected by international copyright,
and appear here by special permission. All rights reserved.
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www.ashleighbrilliant.com]
What should I
say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
-- Joseph Brodsky
1940-, Russian-born American
Poet, Critic
Be such a man,
and live such a life, that if every man were such as you,
and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's
Paradise.
-- Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister,
Poet
The tragedy of
life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Broun
1888-1939, American
Journalist, Novelist
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