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«Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.»
Author: Charles Sumner
(Abolitionist, Statesman)
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«A well-spent day brings happy sleep»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
brings, Happy Days, sleep, spent, The Happiest Days
«A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning»
Author: Lillian Gish
(Actress)
| Keywords:
earning, Happy Life, learning, spent, yearned, yearning, yearnings
«He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
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a hundred, cathedral, cathedrals, half time, spent, The Cathedral
«A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.»
«As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness,
Motivational
| Keywords:
brings, Happy Days, sleep, sleep out, sleep over, spent, The Happiest Days
«Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save»
«I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead -- just play with this -- if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded -- we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace. Thank you very much. You've been great, I hope you enjoyed it.»
Author: Bill Hicks
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
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«A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
doing nothing, honorable, making, mistakes, not only, spent, useful
«A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.»
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