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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which i

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. – Henry David Thoreau

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Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile. – Gerald Massey

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. – William Wordsworth

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Im not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldnt have been born. Straight up. – Lil Wayne

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. – Pythagoras

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There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, How dull is the world today! Nowadays he says, What a dull newspaper! – Daniel J. Boorstin

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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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