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Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
Muriel Strode
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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
Charles Dickens
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I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin
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It takes a village to raise an idiot.
William Dukane
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I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side, I stand for God's side.
Bob Marley
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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Carlos Santana
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps.
Garrison Keillor
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We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.
Joshua L. Chamberlain
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
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It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
Warren Buffett
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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
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We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.
Marilyn King
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There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.
Po Bronson
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A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.
Dolly Parton
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In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
Elzear Blaze
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It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Muriel Strode
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The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.
Clay Aiken
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What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
Northern Exposure
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Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was.
Jeff Melvoin
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. (The Gorky Incident)
Mark Twain
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
Cicero
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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine
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He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
Prophet Mohammed
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Samuel Johnson
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Traditional Indian Saying
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Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
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We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
Shana Alexander
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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Oprah Winfrey
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart
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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
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Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Hancock
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Just turn left at Greenland...
John Lennon
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
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