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George Orwell quote: "Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us..."
Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. George Orwell
I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell. Ma Jian
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. Peter Drucker
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods? Barbara Kingsolver
A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started. Henny Youngman
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn. Charles Dickens
Steven Wright quote: "I went to a general store, but they wouldn’t let me buy..."
I went to a general store, but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific. Steven Wright
Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim's face. Nathaniel Hawthorne
if to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God. George Washington
This is the Hour of Lead-Remembered, if outlived,As freezing persons, recollect the Snow-First-Chill-then Stupor-then the letting go--- Emily Dickinson
You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. Thomas Jefferson
JEANBoy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one! COLONELDon't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. Preston Sturges
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at... Gordon B. Hinckley
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. Bob Dylan

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