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

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

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Carpe Diem
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. – John Wanamaker

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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. – Dag Hammarskjold

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My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you cant, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it. – Hillary Clinton

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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a mans hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. – Don Marquis

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Thats what show business is, sincere insincerity. – Benny Hill

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I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, Howd you like to be on TV? Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a Ready, Set, Cook with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. – Mario Batali

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Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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