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Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Grenville Kleiser

Gratitude, Work, Opportunity

Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.

Paul Brunton

Song, Gratitude, Men

Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

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In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Paul Craig Roberts

Mean, Compassion, Giving Money

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No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

Rudolf Virchow

Science, Men, Doubt

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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

Earl Warren

Years, People, Upset

The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

Ed Asner

Men, Interesting, Library

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O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

Alphonsus Liguori

Mother, Men, Thinking

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It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

Bob Lefsetz

Music, Powerful, Play

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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Lewis Carroll

Mistake, Philosophical, Genius

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When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.

Tim Winton

Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

Cadel Evans

Sports, Australia, Enjoy

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Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

James Monroe

Religious, Godly, Men

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Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

Bob Marshall

Abortion, Magazines, Parenthood

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Miracles are everywhere to be found when priesthood callings are magnified. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.

Thomas S. Monson

Selfish, Opportunity, Miracle

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I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Sarah Palin

Towns, Small Town

Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

Noam Chomsky

Believe, Acceptance, Past

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It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

Tim Cook

Beautiful, Apples, People

"Apple Event Meta Liveblog: All The News As It Happens" by Alex Kidman, www.gizmodo.com.au. March 8, 2012.

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What a privilege it is to be an American!

Thomas Starr King

Thomas Starr King (1924). “Socrates: An Oration”

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Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.

Paul Brunton

Mind

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Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

Margaret Laurence

Privacy, Granted, Young

1964 The Stone Angel, ch.1.

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We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.

Jennifer Morse

Love, Believe, Reality

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The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the family. I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique
characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either.

Pat Robertson

Mother, Unique, Moral Fiber

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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

Spring, Historical, Benefits

Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.437

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Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Native American, Men, White

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wish, Literature, Beginning Middle And End

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.133

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