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• Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
  Worst hangover that I ever had.
  It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
  Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

  Mark Knopfler

  Drinking, Hangover, Night

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• I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

  Shelley Winters

  Drinking, Long, Being A Lady

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

  Dean Martin

  Drinking, Night, Drunk

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• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Weekend, Gun

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• From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Independent, Firsts, Done

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• The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Desire, Glory

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan

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• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

  Tacitus

  Men, Fame, Given

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• And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."

  Robert Southey

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  "The Battle of Blenheim" l. 61 (1798)

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• Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

  Asa Gray

  Annoyed, Saws, Facts

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• If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Sweet, Past

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Cells

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 1

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• When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Thankful

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• Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

  Ken Blanchard

  Motivational, Running, Kindness

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.40, David C Cook

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• The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sacrifice, Attachment, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.234, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

  Annie Dillard

  Gratitude, Thinking, Doors

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.15.

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• Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

  Bill Cosby

  Moon, People, Full Moon

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• My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Waiting, Grace

  Richard Baxter (1817). “The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised”, p.993

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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Summer, Goodbye, Morning

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• Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

  Rick Bayan

  Appreciation, Art, Golf

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• He's been a top player for the last 10 years, and we all work on our swings, we all change things. We keep working and then we're trying to get better, and sometimes you get worse trying to get better. You've just got to give it some time, be patient for it to turn around, and when it does turn around, you feel like you can start winning again.

  Ernie Els

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive, Positivity, Turns

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.50, Harmony

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• When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Thank You, Dog, Giving

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• Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

  Michael Irvin

  Hurt, Couple, Hard Times

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• Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.

  George Vaillant

  Lost Love, Recovery, Grieving

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