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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. – Albert Einstein
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. – Pearl Bailey
Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. – Emily Dickinson
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. – Erma Bombeck
Faith without works is dead. – Bible
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. – Abraham Lincoln
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein
He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. – Anonymous
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. – Andrew Schneider
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead. – Davy Crockett
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. – Homer
I've discovered that researching family descendants is similar to putting a mouse into a puzzle box to find the cheese. Every time you think you're on the right path, you hit a dead end. – T.R. Threston
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. – G. K. Chesterton
sometimes we focus too much on the dead... that we forget about the living...! love your peers, love your friends, love your family, and most importantly... love yourself ! – Kevork Altounian
sometimes we focus too much on the dead... that we forget about the living...! love your peers, love your friends, love your family, and most importantly... love yourself ! – Kevork Rafic Altounian
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold
The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. – Charles de LEUSSE
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. – Jewish Proverb
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. – Ann Landers
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Whole grain and wheat can't be beat, the whiter the bread the sooner you're dead. -Johnny The Walker – Johnny Wowk

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