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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epicurus
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Unknown
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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
Lawrence Bixby
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
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People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn
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Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.
Miyamoto Musashi
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Proverb
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Don't worry about a thing,
Bob Marley
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Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
Black Elk, Native American
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton
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If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Ben Franklin
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna
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When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
Thomas More
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I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence
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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
Milan Kundera
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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Froude
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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid
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Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
Nathaniel Emmons
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Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
Moses Hasid
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Cicero
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripedes
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Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
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A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Mae West
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Once in the racket you're always in it.
Al Capone
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
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Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
Michael Jackson
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward
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