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“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”
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“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”
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“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009. 
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“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”
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“OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.”
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“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”
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“Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.”
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“Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”
Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2013
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“I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.”
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“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”
