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“Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.”

Thinking Our Lives Hundred Dollars Spending

Book:Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Source: Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Made Stills Seems Next Decision Vision Our Lives Shapes Draws Hundred Twenties Decades Cards Deck Indecision Revision

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.”

Years Mean Two Happiness Our Lives Generations Hundred Happy Despise

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.”

Might Used Certain Language Quality Our Lives Products Computer Hundred Phrases Acquire Japan Mysticism Mystical Floats Denmark

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.”

Thinking Long Self Our Lives Goes On Please Safe Behavior Messages Hundred Regard Contact

Author:Swami Vivekananda