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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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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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Helping
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London

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Beauty
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If youre living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. – Ray Bradbury

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. – T. S. Eliot

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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this ones too tall and that one doesnt have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – theres a billion reasons not to hire somebody. – Harvey Fierstein

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Time

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. – Margaret Thatcher

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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. – Mortimer J. Adler

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The thing I fear most is fear. – Michel de Montaigne

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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort. – Jessica Savitch

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