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  • Ben Shapiro Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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  • Tennessee Williams Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • James Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • George Burns Life's but a day at most.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Stephen Leacock Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bill Gates Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
    "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Avi Arad Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Jeremy Schwartz Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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  • Wayne Dyer Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Alice Walker Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
    (2018)
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Boxer Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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