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Alan B. Watts

Alan B. Watts

If we live, we live

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
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Mark V Cerney

Mark V Cerney

If we do not learn

If we do not learn and evolve from past events who will the public trust in the future?
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Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome

It is impossible to enjoy

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.
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C. Lee Hopkin

C. Lee Hopkin

Patience is often merely the

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are caught in

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!
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Faye Wattleton

Faye Wattleton

The only safe ship in

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Kahlil Gibron

Kahlil Gibron

For what are posessions but

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?
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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey

If once a man indulges

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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Ben J. Wattenberg

Ben J. Wattenberg

The plural of anecdote is

The plural of anecdote is data.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every man's life is a train

Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
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Anonymous

Anonymous

I always knew i would

I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry
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Beilby Porteus

Beilby Porteus

One murder makes a villain,

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
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Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

Leave it to a girl

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
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Devo

Devo

If your life was a

If your life was a video game, would you turn it off?
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e.e. cummings

e.e. cummings

to be yourself in a

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else--is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.
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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Allysee Maduro

Allysee Maduro

Some may say I'm stupid,

Some may say I'm stupid, I say I'm in LOVE. ;)
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Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

Careful. We don't want to

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
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Jack Paar

Jack Paar

Immigration is the sincerest form

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson

Dreams can become a reality

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

A lonely Autumn leaf on

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!
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Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

People who get nostalgic about

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
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Wilson Mizner

Wilson Mizner

I hate careless flattery, the

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

We are behaving like people

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless…We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action…No action.
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