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it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.
Mary Oliver
It is a solemn occurrence // merely to exist / on this pristine morning / in this fragmented universe.
2.
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
Angela Davis
Transformation is a weighty matter, the most critical factor in a revolutionary's life. When one devotes oneself to the cause, it must be for an eternity.
3.
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
I was experimenting when I created the aqualung. I believe experimentation is the utmost earnest matter in life.
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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.
C. S. Lewis
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar Wilde
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When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.
Tyra Banks
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That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
Sean O'Casey
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It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston Churchill
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...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?
Rene Daumal
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. Forster
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
Plato
15.
I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things
Selena
17.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo
21.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
C. S. Lewis
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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
Antonio Banderas
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Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.
Jim Carrey
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Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.
Louise Rennison
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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahern
26.
There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.
Daniel Levin Becker
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It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.
Martha Beck
28.
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave.
William Shakespeare
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
Oscar Wilde
30.
Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
Patricia Wentworth
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If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.
Rupert Murdoch
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I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
Aldo Leopold