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Quote by John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck

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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. – John Steinbeck

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If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. Thats how fragile our consciousness is. – Robin Gibb

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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, This aint going to last, so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now. – Adam Ant

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Be happy while youre living, for youre a long time dead. – Scottish Proverb

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. – Nelson Mandela

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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you dont believe is right. – Jane Goodall

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

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