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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

  Robert Kennedy

  Growth, Society, World

  Robert F. Kennedy (1962). “"We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World that We are Just Friends and Brave Enemies". (1. Ed.)”

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• Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.58, Bantam

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Trying

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• Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Storm

  "Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

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• The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

  Janet Collins

  Success, Walks

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• It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Waiting, Inappropriate

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• To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Past, Ignorant

  "Orator Ad M. Brutum" by Cicero, chapter XXXIV, section 120,

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• Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Evil, Overcoming

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• Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Dedication

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• Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

  Emily Dickinson

  Years, Different, Months

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.891, Delphi Classics

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• Learn as if you will live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Live Forever, Ifs

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  It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Honesty, Hate

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• This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Bad Day, Years, Soul

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• I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Taken, Granted, Knows

  MaryJanice Davidson (2005). “Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sixteen, Seems, Simon Lewis

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldn’t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldn’t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didn’t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldn’t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest.

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Dark, Sight

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.142, Harlequin

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• I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  People, Magic, Wells

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.168, GENERAL PRESS

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• Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

  Anna Godbersen

  Hands, Want, Arms

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• Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

  Grace Lin

  Laughing, My Best Friend, Months

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• It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Moments, Made

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.104, Penguin

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• It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking unashamedly to be allowed to continue worshipping the miracle of the planet, and the worship of a natural system not yet touched, never touched by the machines of man. A place with the residue of God – the scent, feel, sight, taste, and sound of God – forever fresh upon it

  Rick Bass

  Men, Sight, Miracle

  Rick Bass (1996). “The book of Yaak”, Houghton Mifflin

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• But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side.... Yours forever Henery William Schoonmaker

  Anna Godbersen

  Sorry, Pain, Your Side

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• Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sea, Shadow, Tears

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Giving, Lasts, Forests

  Rabindranath Tagore (2003). “A Grain of Sand: Chokher Bali”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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