As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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