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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
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Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of W...
ADOLF GALLAND
If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER
By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I a...
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As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the inter...
ALEX MORRISON
I just can't stand being in airports anymore. I just can't stand it.
BILL MEDLEY
There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the governm...
STEVEN SODERBERGH
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rat...
JOY PAGE
My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li...
NATASHA LEGGERO
There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so...
SCOTT ADAMS
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DANA PERINO
Persevere. There is one dandelion that grows from the crack in the cement. Let that one dandelion be...
MARGARET ARANDA
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there...
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a l...
DAVID STEINBERG
I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything t...
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If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
PAUL KANTNER
The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foo...
CRAIG BRUCE
Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING
If ain't broke, let ME take a crack at it!
DON ZEIGLER
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
A. J. MCLEAN
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up...
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You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. T...
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As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is r...
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As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story d...
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TALULAH RILEY
Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't...
NICOLE POLIZZI
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN
Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, y...
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I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I...
TIESTO
If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.
TERRY VENABLES
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have ...
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You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unli...
MARKUS WOLF
Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn...
RAHA MOHARRAK
if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.
CHARLES MARTIN
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came ...
ROBERT BENCHLEY
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible diffe...
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being ...
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I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's sh...
JANA KRAMER
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very str...
ECKHART TOLLE
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limi...
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A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have...
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When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can s...
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I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just...
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I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told m...
EDWARD CONLON
And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
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TONI BRAXTON
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What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film?
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I heard there was some discussion concerning the Wellsville plant. There is no way we can take that ...
JOE GIGLIO
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gu...
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Anything that you could possibly imagine is already out there in another universe. If you are open t...
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There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find...
ALEX COMFORT
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REBECCA MACKINNON
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One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
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I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anythi...
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We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doe...
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If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
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The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there wi...
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I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one...
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My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the...
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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can w...
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Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. Yo...
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Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
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Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim...
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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.
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I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I...
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Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emul...
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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
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The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
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To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of C...
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside wo...
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into ...
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
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It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
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Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES
What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD
With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY
I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
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We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
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When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY
Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
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...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
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Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
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Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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