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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
 Mary Wollstonecraft |
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham Maslow |
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley |
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I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry |
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry |
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Babe Ruth |
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Wendell Berry |
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
Babe Ruth |
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Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.
Denis Leary |
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz |
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Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot |
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot |
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I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot |
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie Schwartz |
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He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George |
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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
John Cage |
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell |
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
Oliver Cromwell |
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
Leo Burnett |
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry |
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Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
Bruce Willis |
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You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis |
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
Tracy Chapman |
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In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
Mariah Carey |
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco |
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
David Bowie |
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All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
Chief Joseph |
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco |
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job
Robert Smith |
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
Robert Smith |
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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Robert Smith |
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read
Gene Simmons |
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No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons |
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
Gene Simmons |
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
Tom Hanks |
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert |
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert |
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
George Herbert |
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert |
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides |
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn |
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert |
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Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert |
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee |
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee |
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Publilius Syrus |
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper Lee |
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee |
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides |
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Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson |
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson |
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson |
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No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed.
Matthew McConaughey |
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day |
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day |
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day |
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
Mencius |
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Henry Rollins |
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Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
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