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Alexander Alekhine quote: "The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to..."

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

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Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. Masaharu Morimoto
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Upon the altar of God I pledge eternal hostility against every..."
Upon the altar of God I pledge eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man Thomas Jefferson
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. Arthur Erickson
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Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too! Denis Kearney
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. Robert Frost
Oliver Cromwell quote: "God made them as stubble to our swords."
God made them as stubble to our swords. Oliver Cromwell
The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time. Magic Johnson
But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning. It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer. Edith Wharton
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are...... We must always take risks. That is our destiny... T. S. Eliot
Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves. Derrick Jensen
Georg Brandes quote: "The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. Georg Brandes
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. Roger Wicker
Jorge Garcia quote: "I just enjoy the ride while I have it."
I just enjoy the ride while I have it. Jorge Garcia
Harrison Birtwistle quote: "One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very..."
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. Harrison Birtwistle
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off. Zoe Saldana