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• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• I can't spare this man, he fights!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Men

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Memorable, Stronger

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• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Cutting, Civilization

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Light, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

  Heinrich Heine

  Long, People, Insulting

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• The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Sex, Media, Film

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• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teenager, Thinking, Long

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• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Book, Beer, Drink

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• It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, People, Politics

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• God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

  John Mason Brown

  Curiosity, Brainstorming, Propulsion

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.

  Claude Mandil

  Moments, Capacity, Wells

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

  Kit Williams

  Feet, Would Be, Way

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• We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

  Tommy Ramone

  Song, Play, People

  "Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' - interview from the vaults" by Alan Betrock, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Men

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• Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday, today, and forever- the One who was, is, and is to come- choose to bestow His loving attention upon the likes of us? The God of unspeakable glory is speaking to us in unmistakable words of love and grace.

  Matt Redman

  Kings, Yesterday, Forever

  Louie Giglio, Matt Redman (2011). “Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe”, p.50, David C Cook

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• War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, War, Enemy

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

  Matthew Arnold

  Air, Whispering, Rooms

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

  William Tyndale

  Boys, Years, Law

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• One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

  Edward Coke

  Coke, Innocence, Guilty

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• There's time enough, but none to spare.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Time, Time Management, Enough

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.240, Xist Publishing

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