"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."

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"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."

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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

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"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."

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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."

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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."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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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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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."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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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."

Helen Keller, American Author

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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?"

Tony Robbins, American Author

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

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"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

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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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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