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Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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Howard Thurman
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.
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Ice T., Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 06-13-12
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), ''Jam-Tomorrow' Progressives,' New Republic, December 15, 1937
Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.
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Percy Cerutty
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Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.
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Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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Elizabeth Janeway
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
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Evan Davis
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
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Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 04-18-06
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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