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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.
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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
― Bernard M. Baruch
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
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