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ANTHONY LICCIONE Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your gl... ANTHONY LICCIONE Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life. ANTHONY LICCIONE Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind. ANTHONY LICCIONE Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you. ANTHONY LICCIONE Words are dead, until action brings them life. ANTHONY LICCIONE One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. ANTHONY LICCIONE Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles. ANTHONY LICCIONE Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of a... ANTHONY LICCIONE Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud... ANTHONY LICCIONE As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives. ANTHONY LICCIONE I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image. ANTHONY LICCIONE What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your... ANTHONY LICCIONE When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of m... ANTHONY LICCIONE If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list. ANTHONY LICCIONE I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business. ANTHONY LICCIONE Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our... ANTHONY LICCIONE People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE Love makes everything possible. ANTHONY LICCIONE