"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
- David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
English novelist
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"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
- David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
English novelist
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"Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
- Stanley Baldwin (1867 - 1947)
Former British Prime Minister
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"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much."
- Erastus Wiman (1834 - 1904)
Canadian journalist and businessman
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"There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best."
- Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
American politician from Massachusetts
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"Most of us can, if we choose, make this world either a prison or a palace."
- Lord Avebury (1928 - 2016)
English politician
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"The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones."
- Sarah Jessica Parker (1965)
American actress
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"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
English poet
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"Great ideals and principles do not live from generation to generation just because they are right, nor even because they have been carefully legislated. Ideas and principles continue from generation to generation only when they are built into the hearts of children as they grow up."
- George S. Benson (1898 - 1991)
missionary to China
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"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous."
- Margaret Fontey (1919 - 1991)
English ballerina
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"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984)
American theatre critic
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