Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
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Marcus Aurelius
We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.
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Fredrik Backman
Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.
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John Hawkins
Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season.
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Vikrmn
It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By Thorstein Veblen
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best,...
The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Therefore the base classes, primarily the women, practice an enforced continence with respect...
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
