"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Fabricius, George on achievement
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"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

Stalin, Joseph on communism and socialism
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"Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on goals   

"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."

Ustinov, Peter on purpose
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"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

Half, Robert on talent
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

Carlyle, Thomas on sincerity
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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"According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin. "

Carter, Jimmy on uncategorised
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"Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on thoughts and thinking
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"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true."

Unknown, Source on happiness
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"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."

Fry, Christopher on comedy and comedians
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"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price."

Browne, Harry on freedom   

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on knowledge   

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on worry
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"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."

Eliot, T. S. on exploration
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"Off the rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anyone."

Giroud, Francoise on solutions   

"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

Orwell, George on writers and writing
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

Baldwin, James on writers and writing
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on impossibility
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"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."

Cocteau, Jean on drugs   

"When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me."

Bridges, Robert on love
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"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

Cousins, Norman on tragedies
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"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on pain
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on fear
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"Eroticism is assenting to life even in death."

Bataille, Georges on eroticism   

"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade."

Seeger, Alan on death   

"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on death
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."

Baudrillard, Jean on life
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"If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs."

Spark, Muriel on death
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"We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death."

Unknown, Source on death
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"Our life is made by the death of others."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on life
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"For precious friends hid in death's dateless night."

Shakespeare, William on bereavement
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"We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death."

Proverb on death
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."

Horace on life
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"Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it."

Hammarskjold, Dag on fatigue   

"Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love."

Proverb, Turkish on food and eating
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