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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
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.
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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.
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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.
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Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
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Anonymous
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
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Patricia Russell-McCloud
Death likes it when you play hard to get.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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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?'
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Jay Leno (1950 - )
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.
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John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet
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.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Reality is something you rise above.
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Liza Minnelli (1946 - )
I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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James Lane Allen
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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