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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not w

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London

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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. – Jack London

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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot

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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. – Adam Hochschild

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. – Saint Augustine

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Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. – Paul Ricoeur

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