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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
 Baron de Montesquieu

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My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.
 Bill Belichick
There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.
 Hafez Nazeri
I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.
 Chili Davis
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
 Baron de Montesquieu
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
 Baron de Montesquieu
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
 Baron de Montesquieu
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
 Baron de Montesquieu
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
 Baron de Montesquieu