"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."

Job, Sorrow

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"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."

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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Paul Simon, American Musician

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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Statesman

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"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."

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"The best way to die is when your living."

Philosophy

"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."

Reading

"I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told."

Time

"The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."

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"Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him."

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"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."

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"We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal."

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"Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned."

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"I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined."

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"I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything."

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