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Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimi

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. – Wayne Dyer

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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. – Soren Kierkegaard

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