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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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Leo Calvin Rosten
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
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I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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