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How to use the word living in a Sentence? Page #102

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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Hector Hugh Munro

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Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.

Koran

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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Flip Wilson

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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

Pliny the Elder

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D Eisenhower

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Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

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We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Scott Adams

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving.

Beverly Sills

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History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

Carl Sandburg

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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran

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