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It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of… — Keith Richards
Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line.… — Jim Lehrer
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he… — Jean de la Bruyere
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a… — Dave Eggers
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,… — Robert Browning
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. — Joseph Fort Newton
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. — Edward Abbey
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when… — William E. Gladstone
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy… — Thomas Jefferson
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the… — Benjamin Franklin
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. — Dorothy Parker
Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name — Woody Allen
The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account. — Lorde
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off… — William James

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