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To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.
R. A. Salvatore
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Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I intend to live forever or die trying.
Joseph Heller
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An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
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All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
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A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.
John Gotti
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The more you suffer, the more you show you really care.
The Offspring
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
Alexander Humboldt
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You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
Oprah Winfrey
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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?
Northern Exposure
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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
Northern Exposure
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There's a difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path.
The Matrix
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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
Jim Morrison
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
Janeane Garofalo
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
Socrates
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A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
Muriel Strode
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
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The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive Jones
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
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By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
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Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Piero Ferrucci
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
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So I can't live either without you or with you.
Ovid
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Horace
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
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If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Pooh's Little Instruction Book
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury
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Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
Alan Holbrook
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I have not seen a newspaper in over a month, and feel much the better for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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