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A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. – Sigmund Freud	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. – Marcel Marceau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. – Luke Salisbury	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. – Dean Gooderham Acheson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. – Corazn Cojuangco Aquino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? – Jane Austen	added by JP03 14 years ago
Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. – Ludwig van Beethoven	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race. – William H. Borah	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago. – Nathaniel Hawthorne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. – Thomas a Kempis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. – Alan J. Perlis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. – Anthony Perkins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she'd say if I spent it like a sober congressman – R. W. Plagge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If Today If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience – Thomas John Watson, Sr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart. – Roger Zelazny	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. – Trey and Matt Stone Parker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. – John Green	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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