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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#appear #bound #calls #case #deprive

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. ↗

— William Godwin

#come #future #image #necessarily #past

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#i #i think #off #only #patients

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be prepared #belongs #changes #life #lives

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #more #myself #never

Precaution is better than cure. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cure #precaution #than

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gain #never #noble #torn #us

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#deeper #down #facts #into #nose

I've got a pretty good appetite right now. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#good #got #i #now #pretty

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#cool #country #declining #direction #dorky