"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people."

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Harry Chapin

#Helping Others Quotes #People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.”
“Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.”
“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”
“I'm sick of these congress meetings. There no reason to meet again. As you know, if there's a congress, I usually win it.”
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Source : "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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