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Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness. -- Suzy Kassem
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. -- Andrew Carnegie
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. -- Theodor Reik
I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life. -- Anne Graham Lotz
There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart. -- Gloria Grahame
You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang. -- Yoko Ono
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. -- Phillips Brooks
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. -- Mark Helprin
I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal. -- John Barrowman
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. -- Nelson Mandela
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. -- Rainn Wilson
Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them. -- Dax Shepard
I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen. -- Jenson Button
I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life. -- Sonam Kapoor
I'm good at separating my personal life from racing. When I'm at track, it's race time; when I'm away from it, other than the fact I'm training to be fit for it, there is nothing at home that makes me even want to think about racing. I just want to enjoy my life, and by the time the next race comes around, I'm ready and excited for it. -- Casey Stoner
Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education. -- Guy Finley
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. -- Horace
Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race. -- Abraham Cowley
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable. -- Ted Rall
Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ... -- William Fawcett
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star -- Bill Vaughan
For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly. -- Joanne Fluke
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. -- Doug Marlette
If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own. -- Ted Harts
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future. -- I. F. Stone
having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first. -- Molly Antopol

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