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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Serenity
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer

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Strip malls are history. – Jeff Bezos

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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. – Madalyn Murray OHair

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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence

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Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away. – David Allan Coe

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. – Matt Biondi

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I started running outside when I was at Biggest Loser. Then I got runners knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine. – Alison Sweeney

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Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous – I always wanted to be a singer. – Jennifer Hudson

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