"Perpetually crouched, quivering, upon the sternly allotted sandpile……" — Unknown Author

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• If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the… — Surya Das
• Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go… — Ann Brashares
• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,… — E. M. Forster
• Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In… — Samuel Johnson
• You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. — Christopher Marlowe
• His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects… — George Wilson
• The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event… — Emile Borel
• This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in… — Marjorie Harris
• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent… — Sherwin B. Nuland
• [M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and… — George Washington
• It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to… — James Madison

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