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A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#cynicism #determination #fate #future #life-and-living

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#coach #i #knew #never #resigned

I'm still healthy as can be. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#healthy #i #still

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#got #just #life #names #only

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor. ↗

— Ed Royce

#al #because #cut #difficult #difficult time

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#before #better #day #most #mother

Weekends and weekdays, when you knew I was looking and when you didn't even guess I was alive. Even with shiny stars bothering your head it was beautiful. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#beauty

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated. ↗

— Ed Royce

#aggressively #cigarettes #counterfeit #currency #diplomacy

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. ↗

— Mike Royko

#asylum #babbling #been #electronic #filled

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer. ↗

— Mike Royko

#approach #basic #basically #conservative #even