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How to use the word alIve in a Sentence? Page #43

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Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe

Maurice Mascaranhas

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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Peter McWilliams

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Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world.

Lucy Montgomery

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We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefer

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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

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As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey

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Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.

David Assael

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Anonymous

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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

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One must desire something to be alive.

Margaret Deland

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You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

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I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker

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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

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Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Christina G. Rossetti

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There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Andrew Schneider

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Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.

Andrew Schneider

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History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

Kedar Joshi

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I finally figured out that the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown

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