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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. — William Feather
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he… — Haruki Murakami
We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it.… — Paul Farmer
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. — Scott Westerfeld
What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said.… — Jack Kerouac
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. — Jack Kerouac
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the… — Brandon Sanderson
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs… — Mark Twain
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. — David Levithan
Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know… — Jodi Picoult
Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children… — Gregory Maguire
We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss… — Mark Twain
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the… — Mark Twain
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them… — Robert Fulghum
In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not… — Bell Hooks
No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our… — Cordell Hull
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau
After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace… — Charles B. Rangel
As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them… — Constance Marie

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