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If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
Lemony Snicket
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
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There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Bertrand de Jouvenal
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The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath
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Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
William Shakespeare
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, i'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling
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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Seneca
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis
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I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfizer
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
J. R .R. Tolkien
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brown
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May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
Unknown
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West
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I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven, time to go to sleep." I said, "But I don't know how." She said, "It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said "I thought I told you to go to sleep.
Steven Wright
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus
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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
Voltaire
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
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A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
Unknown
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Always in motion is the future.
Yoda
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Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, and when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
Joseph Goebbels
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
H. L. Mencken
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
Anne Rice
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Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
Northern Exposure
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You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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Oh for a book and a shady nook...
John Wilson
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I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.
Julia Roberts
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
William Shakespeare
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Your very silence shows you agree.
Euripedes
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Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.
Bias
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Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
Leone Levi
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