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Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. — Harry S. Truman
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. — George Bernard Shaw
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on… — Tom Hodgkinson
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them… — David Ben-Gurion
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. — James Truslow Adams
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly… — Charles Darwin
How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." — Harry S. Truman
We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them. — Amy Carmichael
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting. — Confucius
You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be. — Marianne Williamson
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone… — Julie Burchill
One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time. — Albert Einstein
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will… — Aristotle
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell
The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create… — Ian Kershaw
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler… — William L. Shirer
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because… — Matthew Henry
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another. — William Shakespeare
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. — Edward Abbey
Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me… — Steven Morrissey
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway

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