Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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