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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. (Alger William R.)
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. (Alger William R.)
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. (Alger William R.)
The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life. (Alger William R.)
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. (Alger William R.)
I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated. (Alger William R.)
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. (Alger William R.)
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. (Alger William R.)
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. (Alger William R.)
If life gives you limes, make margaritas. (Alger William R.)
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been. (Alger William R.)
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. (Alger William R.)
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. (Alger William R.)
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. (Alger William R.)
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? (Alger William R.)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. (Alger William R.)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Alger William R.)
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. (Alger William R.)
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Alger William R.)
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. (Alger William R.)
The past cannot be cured. (Alger William R.)
Time is my greatest enemy. (Alger William R.)
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. (Alger William R.)
Everything hurts. (Alger William R.)
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. (Alger William R.)
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