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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.: Anonymous
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.: Patricia Russell-McCloud
Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
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No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.: Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
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Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?: Irv Kupcinet
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Reality is something you rise above.: Liza Minnelli (1946 - )
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I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.: James Lane Allen
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