• Fight with the radiant certainty and absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.

    FORBES: Booked Bio: Who is Ayn Rand?

  • Presidents have been known to say that they feel stifled governing from the environs of the Rose Garden, meaning that they believe they have to get out from the bubble that is life in the White House if they want to maintain a feel for America and Americans.

    CNN: Barack Obama slept here

  • Indeed, with scientific advances when it comes to birth galloping ahead, is the miracle that is life so sacred that the certifiably crazy can produce children on the dime of taxpayers with reckless abandon?

    FORBES: What is the state's obligation to the mother of octuplets?

  • The 23-year-old's biggest obstacle is that "the shelf life for the average consumer is very, very short, " according to Bob Williams, chief executive of Evanston, Ill.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It was interesting to note, for example, that while Volkswagen made its 2012 Beetle six inches longer and three inches wider than the former model (and, yes, touted these numbers), the company kept top of mind that this is the car that started its life in America as the hippie vehicle of choice.

    FORBES: Volkswagen, BMW Understand What It Takes To Stand Out

  • Cardinal Brady said in his Christmas message that he hoped "that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator".

    BBC: Cardinal Sean Brady

  • Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • You know, lesiure, the time to stare at the bubbles in beer (or more amusingly, to ponder the bubbles that pass for though as they travel through the head of the new barmaid), contemplate the sunset, whatever it is that we think is the good life.

    FORBES: Does More Money Always Make You Happier? No, Of Course Not, Don't Be So Silly

  • The good news is that the battery life seems decent: Fitbit says the Flex can last between five and seven days on a charge, and that's despite having a Bluetooth 4.0 radio inside.

    ENGADGET: Fitbit announces the Flex wristband, a $100 fitness tracker to take on the Jawbone Up

  • We all know that change is the only constant in life and nowhere is that more true than in the workplace.

    FORBES: Learning To Love Change In The Workplace

  • This is the theory that life is not merely a surface scum which clings to the outside of planet Earth, but that living things, in the form of so-called extremophile bacteria which can tolerate infernal heat, penetrate several kilometres into the planet's interior.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • Dangers exist at home and abroad, but one of the greatest risks is not living the life that is meant for us.

    CNN: Women: Travel safely, but keep traveling

  • But stripped of that benign cover, the operative doctrine is that your life is not your own, that selfless service to the needs of others is the only justification for your existence.

    FORBES: Obama Hears Your Whining, And He's Here to Help You Out

  • Had the pleasure been forgone that is, had the life never been created no one would have been the worse for it.

    NEWYORKER: The Case Against Kids

  • "I think all you need to tell the stories that I have told is to live the life that I have lived and keep your eyes and senses open and working, " he once said.

    CNN: Things fall apart: Chinua Achebe and Nigeria

  • What makes AGW different is that the alleged pollutant is carbon dioxide an odorless, colorless gas that is the basis of all life and human activity.

    FORBES: The Goal Is Power: The Global Warming Conspiracy

  • Mr Justice Weir told Cavan that as he had pleaded guilty to murder, "there is only one sentence prescribed by law for that and that is the sentence of life imprisonment".

    BBC: The apartment block where a man's body was found

  • More broadly, a central theme in her work is the proposition that a particular conception of the good life is itself a moral value, and that that from this value, certain libertarian moral and political conclusions follow.

    FORBES: What Was Ayn Rand Wrong About?

  • The truth is that the man whose life was money had no interest in money.

    BBC: Banker + gangster = bankster

  • The problem for the banks is that turning off the life support machine on distressed property could cause too many losses for their balance sheets to bear.

    BBC: High Street taskforce aims to to rejuvenate retail

  • The doping violation means that Chambers is now banned for life from the Olympics and Collins is well aware that the Londoner must not prevent youngsters from making Team GB.

    BBC: SPORT | Athletics | Chambers is given track lifeline

  • In the end, the technology that can be the most disruptive is one that can improve the quality of life for an aging population.

    FORBES: Ozics And The Future Of Mending Bones

  • He believed that "the craziest thing about Jesus is that church life never gets in the way of feeling close to him, " and would teach me about the ironies of religion.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Take This Bread'

  • It defines "undetermined" as cases where there is insufficient evidence to prove that the person deliberately took their life, but the assumption is that they did.

    BBC: Call for campaign to raise awareness of suicide in young men

  • Less research has been done on the implications for later life, but what these Oxbridge admissions statistics now demonstrate is that the impact on life outcomes can persist beyond school.

    BBC: Month of birth affects chance of attending Oxbridge

  • In 1896, the European imperial powers governed a large portion of the planet, and the Games were a tribute to their success in spreading their way of life from the idea that life is essentially competition right down to the unit of measurement throughout the world.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • Implicit in the suggestion that we're morphing into our friends across the Atlantic is that we like a life of ease paid for on the backs of others.

    FORBES: Political Economy

  • The bottom line as of 2001 is that the only sort of life scientists have a good shot at verifying is monocellular bacteria.

    FORBES: We've Got Company

  • Armstrong told Winfrey that the unraveling of his career is the second time in his life that he could not control his life's narrative -- the last time was when he had cancer.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Ms. LATIFAH: It was deep because most of the women who were sitting in that scene, in discussion, those support group scenes, you know, are actually from Life Force, which is the organization that "Life Support" is based on.

    NPR: Queen Latifah on New HBO Movie 'Life Support'

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