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GARY F EVANS... Ques eso? Queso?
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C. JOYBELL C. When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
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NELLIE CHRISTINE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It doesn’t always feel right when we do what is right.
TERENCE T. GORSKI You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
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LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS ...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I...
ANN RINALDI [If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...
C.S. LEWIS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
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HARRY STYLES Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Love does not depend on circumstance - it is a decision, not a feeling.
J.R. MORALES Contrary to popular belief, love is not found. It is achieved.
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Love ? Love is when you are ready to do every possible and positive thing for someone,
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C. JOYBELL C. If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
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DEYTH BANGER Learn as you go! Don't think you have to learn everything, in order to do anything. The best knowled...
WILLIAM MERRICK Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS When I know what to do, everything is so easy.
LORRIN L. LEE Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the d...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

...
This chat will be in the...
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BELLA VESPIRA What is love?
It's not empathy, nor kindness.
Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the...
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SIMCHA GLUCK What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome
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RUDOLPH DELSON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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ROBIN SACREDFIRE What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, the...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it
VINCENT VAN GOGH What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.
HILARY MANTEL The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co...
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ANGELA N. BLOUNT Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
TONI BRAXTON Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
DAMIEN RICE I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which t...
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RICHELLE E. GOODRICH They just wanted to make her birthday special. This is what Chelsea wanted to do.
MARSHA BERRY WHY YOU DO, is more important than WHAT YOU DO.
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GERMANY KENT Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is what it is and so is my determination to change 'what is' into a better 'is'.
BRANDON A. TREAN You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.
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LEON URIS God exists and he is an atom. So he exists in every thing and everywhere. An atom is a unit and exam...
DEBASISH MRIDHA If what you seek is true and genuine companionship, then give true and genuine companionship in orde...
FRANKLIN GILLETTE You learn right away what you do well, and what you don't.
BOB BABBITT what matter most ? _ you . only you.everyday every event would pass by through your vein
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GEORGE W. BUSH Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Do what you love and the money will follow.
MARSHA SINETAR Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
DYLAN LAUREN When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY