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The most adequate rendering of it would be, in a great majority of instances, by the term life.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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"They are part of my personal history, of my evolution as a man, and of my constant walk in this material level which we call life."
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This presence seemed to be keenly interested in every aspect of life and yet it was also outside of what we know as our life.
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His condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery of things, and which we call life.
Les Miserables 2008
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Jordan Belfort, a self-proclaimed master of the universe, living what he calls the life.
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There will be many false prophets come to you in the end times,be not decieved,for the devil is shrewd,wrapping up evil with what he calls life.
Think Progress » Congressman: ‘I Fear…We Will Have Many More Muslims In The United States’ 2006
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This poor fellow may have met death happily, since he went to such painful extremes in what he called a life.
Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003
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If something processes, modifies, and encodes mat ion above a certain level of complexity, that is what we call life.
Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999
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Or perhaps all distinctions may be reduced to that between producer and product, where the product merely gives a name to the producer of its actuality: an example of this is the relation of father to son, though here both producer and product have a sort of actuality, which we call life.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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She is all to him that she ever was, -- the sweetest, dearest, best portion of that which we call his life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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