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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Come what come may,
    time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
    Macbeth (1605)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • David Mitchell Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Bow Wow Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stephenson Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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  • Stephen Hawking Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • William James Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Groucho Marx From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
    Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Heraclitus God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Abraham Davenport I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Peter Townshend It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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