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When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time. YULIA TYMOSHENKO To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY We must move from denigration to integration if we are to achieve a peaceful world. DAVID FRISKO TEACHER The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. WILLIE NELSON I learn something in the interviews from time to time. SAMANTHA BEE We all have our family issues from time to time. AJA NAOMI KING To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. SAMUEL BECKETT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS stop looking for job, create one. SOTONYE ANGA To have time as an ally it must firstly be understood and respected,without time we have no way forw... GARY F EVANS... As time begins to pass, I have come to find that what I thought was, wasn't what I thought was so. ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. SIMON MASHALLA How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which... RANBIR KAPOOR Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are... AHMED ALI ANJUM My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... PRINCE If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important. JEFF OLSON There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you! LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. IRVIN D. YALOM Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am. ALAN LADD In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time. VICTOR CRUZ In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has p... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. LUIGI PIRANDELLO We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
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DAVID NIVEN I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in . DAVID NIVEN Everything starts as somebody's daydream. LARRY NIVEN On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist.... LARRY NIVEN The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim LARRY NIVEN We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one. JENNIFER NIVEN For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am w... JENNIFER NIVEN In my dreams, I see 10 to 20 years from now, people who are 50 to 55 years old will get a cognitive ... ANNE FAGAN NIVEN To our surprise, three of the people that were PIB-positive and had low A-beta 42 levels were clinic... ANNE FAGAN NIVEN Our goal is to identify biomarkers, to be able to diagnose people early in the disease stage, hopefu... ANNE FAGAN NIVEN Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full!
This narrow cell was Life's ret... ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me. “Is it true you almost drowned Roamer... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete... JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ... JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ... JOHN CLAYTON