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I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Natural Causes, 06-07-13
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The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.: Tony Blair (1953 - )
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.: Kanye West
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.: Anonymous, Blackfoot chief (c. 1880)
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He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.: Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.: King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
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For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.: Marilyn C. Barrick
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.: Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964)
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.: Joe Brown and David Brown
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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