Carpe Quotes - Page 5

• I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

  Andrew McMahon

  Life, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

  Keter Betts

  Carpe Diem, World, Wells

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Loneliness, Math

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• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, Carpe Diem, People

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• Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

  John Silber

  Carpe Diem, Survival, Passionate

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• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  Evan Esar

  Zoos, Carpe Diem, Study

  "Esar's Comic Dictionary". Book by Evan Esar, 1943.

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Carpe Diem, Men

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• And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Freedom, Home

  Francis Scott Key, “Defence Of Fort M'Henry”

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• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Carpe Diem, Political, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Carpe Diem, Anxiety, Alarms

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Carpe Diem, Fruit

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Carpe Diem, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Carpe Diem, Men, Lazy

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• It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

  George Washington

  Peace, Carpe Diem, Alliances

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

  Jean Bodin

  Mistake, Carpe Diem, Teach

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

  John R. Platt

  Carpe Diem, Ideas, Years

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• It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

  Roger Caras

  Carpe Diem, Fool, Errands

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• We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Carpe Diem, Law

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Carpe Diem, Filthy

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• The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

  Epicurus

  Carpe Diem, Fool, Faults

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• What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

  Thomas More

  Carpe Diem, Play, Make The Best Of It

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