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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."
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"Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away."
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Debasish Mridha
"Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away."
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"To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst."
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Abhijit Naskar
"To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst."
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"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
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Edwin Louis Cole
"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
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"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
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Michael Ondaatje
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
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"You can never be happy unless you learn to love yourself."
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Jeffrey Fry
"You can never be happy unless you learn to love yourself."
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"If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings."
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Gina Greenlee
"If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings."
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"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
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Jack Vance
"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
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"Invest in love to earn dividends of happiness."
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Debasish Mridha
"Invest in love to earn dividends of happiness."
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"The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step-up to achieve them."
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Sravani Saha Nakhro
"The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step-up to achieve them."
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"I am too old to think."
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Keith Miller
"I am too old to think."
Old,
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"Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul."
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Matthew Donnelly
"Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul."
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"I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former."
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Donna Lynn Hope
"I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former."
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"God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you."
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Edwin Louis Cole
"God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you."
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"In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted."
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Carlos Wallace
"In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted."
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"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
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Nora Roberts
"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
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Elias Canetti
"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
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"Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good."
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Jim George
"Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good."
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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
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Mark Twain
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
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"It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could "turn off' all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial."
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Kenneth Eade
"It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could "turn off' all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial."
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"You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have."
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Zig Ziglar
"You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have."
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"If it tries to take you," Wren said, "I wont' let go."
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Rainbow Rowell
"If it tries to take you," Wren said, "I wont' let go."
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"Health, wealth, happiness,live long and always prosper,have families and also friends,let them be lasting in me forever."
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Toba Beta
"Health, wealth, happiness,live long and always prosper,have families and also friends,let them be lasting in me forever."
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"Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling - you give the line that the audience wants to hear."
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Rick Yancey
"Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling - you give the line that the audience wants to hear."
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"It's a bet " the more you Give, the more you will Get."
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R.V.M.
"It's a bet " the more you Give, the more you will Get."
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"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
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Edith Wharton
"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
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"No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment."
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Jared Diamond
"No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment."
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"You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope."
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Rick Yancey
"You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope."
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"We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can't we?"
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Scott Stabile
"We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can't we?"
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"The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock."
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Annie Dillard
"The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock."
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"To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost."
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost."
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"Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole."
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Anne Lamott
"Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole."
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"I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost."
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
"I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost."
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"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."
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Samuel Smiles
"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."
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"When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ['Could the milk man be the devil?']"
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Erik Pevernagie
"When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ['Could the milk man be the devil?']"
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"Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are."
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Doug Coupland
"Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are."
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"You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less."
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Benny Bellamacina
"You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less."
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"Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow."
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
"Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow."
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"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."
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Flannery O'Connor
"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."
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"You can't work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won't get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love."
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Israelmore Ayivor
"You can't work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won't get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love."
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
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Samuel Smiles
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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Christopher Morley
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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Terry Pratchett
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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"What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?"
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Yann Martel
"What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?"
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"Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish."
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Gina Greenlee
"Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish."
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"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence."
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Jared Diamond
"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence."
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"Jesus Christ is our Saviour."
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Lailah Gifty Akita
"Jesus Christ is our Saviour."
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"Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin."
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Ann Voskamp
"Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin."
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"Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy."
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Ann Voskamp
"Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy."
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"The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event."
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Matthew Donnelly
"The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event."
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