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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Life, Time, Value

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Human, Stars, Secret

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

America, After, Perhaps

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Time, God

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

Life, Around, Secret

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, Whose, Plant

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner

Character, Mistakes, Mistake

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei

Understand, Easy, Once

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Before, Equal, Thousand

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Future, Forget, Past

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

Fear, Keep, Conquer

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

History, Free, Far

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey

Age, Freedom, Learned

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

Life, Truth, Times

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. Wilson

Truth, Spiritual, Humanity

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Together, Through

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
Sigmund Freud

Why, Wait, Pious

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

Evil, Human, Room

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes

Life, Getting, Almost

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal

Others, Themselves, Found

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal

Mind, Others, Themselves

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life, Him, Himself

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Easy, Until

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before, Miss, Train

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Fool, Devil, Neighbors

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams

Heart, Desire, Beloved

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