Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 7

• Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

  Jean Anouilh

  Law, Political, Sacred

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

  Herbert Hoover

  History, Political, Once Upon A Time

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

  William James

  Education, Philosophical, College

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• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Perfection, Principles, Genius

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Society, Changing Environment

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Fools Day

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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

  Jean Bodin

  Mistake, Teach, Carpe

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• All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

  Og Mandino

  Life, Men, Dying

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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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• Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

  Rosalind Russell

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

  Edmund Burke

  Pact, Carpe, Unborn

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• Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Character, Men

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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, People, Ignorant

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

  George Washington

  Peace, Alliances, World

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

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

  Keter Betts

  World, Wells, Better Place

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

  John Silber

  Survival, Passionate, Conviction

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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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• 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

  Ideas, Years, Recipes

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• Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
  Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

  Horace

  Time, Littles, Morrow

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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