Quotes about life
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Never give in and never give up.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
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