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• Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

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• The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

  George Washington

  Religious, Blessing, Rights

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.168

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• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Travel, Interesting, Projects

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• My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Has Beens, Hard

  "Bird Still Celtics' Main Man - At Age 35, He's Enjoying Basketball More Than Ever". Chicago Tribune, December 25, 1991.

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• I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Games

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Desire, Haste

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.174

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• Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

  Robert Morley

  School, Men, Bully

  Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1967). “Robert Morley: a reluctant autobiography”

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• I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Beautiful, Beach, Growing Up

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• The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

  Billy Graham

  Home, School, Parenting

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• Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Healthy, Individuality

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• They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Liberty, Individual, Considering

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.55

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• I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

  T. Harv Eker

  Cake, Secret, Looks

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• I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!

  Richard Goldschmidt

  Knowledge, Exercise, Science

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• The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.

  Francis Darwin

  Strong, Book, Holiday

  Sir Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin (1925). “The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter”

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• Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

  David Brainerd

  Heart, Heaven, Wickedness

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.63

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• And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Government, Age

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.412, Wildside Press LLC

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• The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

  James Madison

  Education, Men, Long

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Moving, Thinking, Qigong

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• We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, Simplicity, Taste

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• All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed drinking - it is impossible to think of a person who enjoys drinking and not laughing. He enjoyed women - it is difficult to think of a man who enjoys women and not laughing. He was friendly, almost in love, with a prostitute, Mary Magdalene. It is difficult to move with a prostitute - he was not moving with a Catholic monk, not with a priest, not with the Pope... with a prostitute! These were the condemnations against him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Real, Drinking

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• From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Ties, Islam, United States

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

  Niki Taylor

  Artist, Makeup, Monsters

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• There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Electricity, Storage

  "The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary". American Bar Association Journal, Volume 39, No. 11, p. 962, www.jstor.org. November 1953.

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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