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• We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Declaration of Independence...
• We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
  -- Dale E. Turne...
• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach?
  Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working....
• With some people we spend our time, with others we invest it.
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• What we do with our leisure time is almost essential to our success as what we do during our working hours.
• Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time.
  But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own....
• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Many of us spend half our life wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
  -- Alexander Woollco...