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1. Some people die at 25 and arent buried until 75.

Benjamin Franklin
2. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses
opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. Oscar
Wilde
3. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are
not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clark
4. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
5. Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might
have been. John Greenleaf Whittier
6. I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the
man who has practised one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee
7. And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze
back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Dont let schooling interfere with your education-Mark Twain
9. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy
10. It is no measure of health to be welladjusted to a profoundly sick
society. Jiddu Krisnamurti
11. Every man dies, but not every man truly lives. William Wallace
12. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
13. Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they
go. ! Oscar Wilde
14. Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my
friend? Abraham Lincoln
15. To love is to recognize yourself in another. Eckhart Tolle
16. Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in
reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. Tryon Edwards
17. If you want to build a ship, dont drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
vast and endless sea. Antoine de SaintExupery
18. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
19. Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
Indian Proverb
20. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
21. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and
when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good
and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. William
Saroyan
22. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness
was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I
wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I
didnt understand the assignment, and I told them they didnt
understand life. ! John Lennon
23. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ! Albert
Einstein
24. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world that is the myth of the atomic age as in being
able to remake ourselves. ! Mahatma Gandhi
25. The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take
risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.
Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often
wounded, sometimes destroyed. Ernest Hemingway
26. In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is
getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. !
Hunter S. Thompson
27. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ! Dwight D.
Eisenhower
28. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things
while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with
a single step. Lao Tzu
29. Dalai Llama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity,
said: Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so
anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the
result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives
as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
30. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire
generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so
we can buy shit we dont need. Were the middle children of history,
man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great
Depression. Our Great Wars a spiritual war our Great Depression
is our lives. Weve all been raised on television to believe that one
day wed all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we
wont. And were slowly learning that fact. And were very, very
pissed off ! Chuck Palahniuk
31. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is
able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing
superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the
conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane
and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if
he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among
those who are. ! HL Mencken

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