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Elvis Costello

"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

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"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

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"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."

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"Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!"

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"I am seeing life in two dimensions, human and divine."

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"If we born into the world, we must seek rebirth in the world."

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"Happiness is immeasurable joy."

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"PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot."

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"Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go."

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