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What is life? What is the meaning of life?

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:March 5, 2008
Post category:Meaning of Life Quotes Whimsy
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Here are some of my favorite quotes on this ultimate topic of the meaning of life. I pulled many of these quotes from my favorite quote site: The Quotations Page, where you can find hundreds more quotes on the meaning of life” and thousands of quotes on numerous other topics.

Is there life before death?
Graffito, in Belfast

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie (1860 – 1937)

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 – )
– More quotations on: [Life] [Sleep]

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 – 1968)

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877)

A life

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Days “chopped into pieces”.

Post author:Erika Price
Post published:February 22, 2008
Post category:Culture Films Quotes Recommended Reading/Films/Sites Technology Whimsy
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I want to share with everyone a passage from the opening of the movie The Gods Must be Crazy. This silly 1980s movie provides a very oversimplified, idealized image of African Bushmen, but at the same time gets its label of modern westernized man spot-on. This excerpt from the film's…

Farewell speech by upbeat pancreatic cancer patient

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:February 19, 2008
Post category:Education Meaning of Life Videos
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This speaker's name is Randy Pausch. This video shows a farewell speech that Pausch originally gave to his students at Carnegie Mellon. This video is well worth your eleven minutes, especially if you have far more than eleven minutes to live. One of Pausch's closing lines: "If you live properly,…

WordPress upgrade for Dangerous Intersection

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:February 12, 2008
Post category:Technology Web Site
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Bear with us as we improve this site. I realize that the comments function was not working this morning. That has now been fixed. Also, posting capacity was down for awhile. Those problems have been ironed out. We're making lots of changes here, most of them to the backside of…

Why we do the things we do.

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:February 5, 2008
Post category:Humor Meaning of Life Psychology Cognition Quotes
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Does anyone really know the answer? Ever? That's the point of this excerpt from a short essay by novelist Harlan Ellison: . . . [My] fourth marriage just sort of happened: It seemed like a good idea at the time. In fact—and this is the core of all my wisdom about…

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