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"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck." Kareem Abdul-Jabar 4.2455 average rating  
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." Geoffrey F. Abert 4.6357 average rating  
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman 4.7273 average rating  
"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?" Douglas Noel Adams 4.4217 average rating  
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." Douglas Noel Adams 4.5857 average rating  
"Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does." Douglas Noel Adams 4.5758 average rating  
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible." Henry Brooks Adams 4.4697 average rating  
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." James Truslow Adams 4.7436 average rating  
"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." James Truslow Adams 4.5556 average rating  
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." James Truslow Adams 4.5772 average rating  
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." James Truslow Adams 4.5500 average rating  
"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." James Truslow Adams 4.8182 average rating  
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact." James Truslow Adams 4.3824 average rating  
"Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year." John Adams 3.2222 average rating  
"We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants." Scott Adams 4.0952 average rating  
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." William Adams 4.4375 average rating  
"In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire." Charles Francis Adams, Sr. 3.0000 average rating  
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Joseph Addison 4.6242 average rating  
"The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them." Joseph Addison 4.6774 average rating  
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life." Joseph Addison 4.6500 average rating  
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