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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

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

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Time
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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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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
category

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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Carpe Diem

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. – Author Unknown

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Carpe Diem

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. – Ben Irwin

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Carpe Diem

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. – B. Alan Wallace

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Carpe Diem

Random Quotes

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. – Meir Kahane

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Happiness

Thats the whole problem with science. Youve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. – Bill Watterson

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Science

All those vitamins arent to keep death at bay, theyre to keep deterioration at bay. – Jeanne Moreau

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Death

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. – Guy Clark

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Travel