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Quote by Jack London
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. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

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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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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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. – Hamilton

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Carpe Diem

Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578

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Carpe Diem

Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. – John Henry Cardinal Newman

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Carpe Diem

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George F. Will

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Carpe Diem

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, 2011

Category:
Friendship

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. – Wilson Mizner

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Listening
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams… occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a “second sleep.” A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind. – Dr. Anna Bonus Kingsford, 1886, preface to Dreams and Dream-Stories, 1888

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Dreams

People still kill in the name of religion. We havent evolved to the point where were one tribe called humans. – Rachel Weisz

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Religion