"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."

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"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."

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"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

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"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

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"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

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"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

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"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

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"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

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"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

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"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."

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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"

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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

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