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  • Mark Twain had many moods, and he did not always approve of his own God; but when he altered his conception, it was likely to be in the direction of enlargement — a further removal from the human conception, and the problem of what we call our lives.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Mark Twain had many moods, and he did not always approve of his own God; but when he altered his conception, it was likely to be in the direction of enlargement -- a further removal from the human conception, and the problem of what we call our lives.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Mark Twain had many moods, and he did not always approve of his own God; but when he altered his conception, it was likely to be in the direction of enlargement -- a further removal from the human conception, and the problem of what we call our lives.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • We're living in a world of fact and we've got out heads full of fiction, the characters that we've invented for ourselves – we're all writers, we all invent characters for ourselves, roles in this little play that we're running in our head that we call our lives.

    Writing related articles. Jeff 2005

  • We're living in a world of fact and we've got out heads full of fiction, the characters that we've invented for ourselves – we're all writers, we all invent characters for ourselves, roles in this little play that we're running in our head that we call our lives.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Jeff 2005

  • He had work in the morning and that made him somewhat more normal, in this strange little pattern they called their lives.

    The Killing Hour Gardner, Lisa 2003

  • Like a father who owns all the toys and furniture and appliances the children use in his house, God simply asks to be allowed to use with us the “home furnishings” we call our lives.

    The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001

  • After you, your son -- the man dies, but the name lives.

    The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

  • If you’re looking for single entendre, you might consider perusing the entendre personal ads, wherein most of the desperate halfwits scream FUCK ME in a vain attempt to restore feeling to the otherwise quickly cooling corpses they call lives.

    bard Diary Entry bard 2002

  • The problem is it is always easier to grow government intervention in lives.

    'None of this is easy,' Obama aide says of health care reform 2009

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