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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

  Robert Breault

  Carpe Diem, Two, Ifs

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• It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Communication, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

  Doc Childre

  Carpe Diem, Choices, How You Feel

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (1998). “Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health”, p.6, HeartMath

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• If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

  Robert Breault

  Carpe Diem, Moments, Back In Time

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• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

  James Jeans

  Life, Carpe Diem, Anticipation

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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• History is a bucket of ashes.

  Samuel Butler

  Carpe Diem, Buckets, Ashes

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• I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

  Brittany Murphy

  Mom, Children, Carpe Diem

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• Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Seize The Day, Morrow

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• Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Carpe Diem, Uniting, Communist Manifesto

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• Yes, I know.
  Death sits with his key in my lock.
  Not one day is taken for granted.
  Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

  Anne Sexton

  Taken, Carpe Diem, Keys

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

  Sean Pertwee

  Carpe Diem, Boots, Pairs

  "Pertwee reveals sexual panting". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. February 20, 2008.

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• I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

  Thomas Lux

  Carpe Diem, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Thomas Lux (1976). “The glassblower's breath”, Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

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• A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Carpe Diem

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• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

  Publilius Syrus

  Carpe Diem, Advice, Delight

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 467, 1856.

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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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• Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

  Liz Jensen

  Seize The Day, Throat

  Liz Jensen (1998). “Ark Baby”, Overlook Books

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• I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.

  Gloria Feldt

  Opportunity, Chaos

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.187, Seal Press

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• The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

  William Sharp

  Carpe Diem, Years, Slides

  William Sharp (2015). “The Washer of the Ford: Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

  James Montgomery

  Wise, Carpe Diem, Years

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...”, p.173

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