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Related We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi... BRUCE BARTON So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the f... TOM ROBBINS The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do o... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Who cares what are you eating?? Who cares where are you? Who cares what are you posting??<... DEYTH BANGER Just as soon as they find the cure for AIDS, we're heading out to Baskin Robbins and ordering one of... BRAD RENFRO Establish a system of rewards and punishments SUNDAY ADELAJA What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enou... RICHARD M. NIXON We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly eno... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON "As the sun rises, may we be grateful for the rays that warms our hearts and our souls." ~Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN They have a need for us as soon as we can get there, ... This is one of the largest stateside mobili... DAVID HARRELL Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o... ANNE ROMAN We're maintaining in our database 200 million credit files that are constantly being changed and upd... DAVID RUBINGER Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. RONALD REAGAN We view it as a benefit for our kids. DARREN KECSKES As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can. VINCE MCMAHON In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all ... LUTHER BURBANK I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our f... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I think we've solidified ourselves as one of the teams to beat in the country. We just have to be di... DANE MOODY We are very fortunate to have (David) for our event as he leaves for a European tour soon after. 'Yo... CONSTANCE BERNSTEIN Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. PAUL ELDRIDGE Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility. IMAM ALI (AS) Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives u... KELLY ADAMS 7.4 Billion and counting. The way we view our own importance as a species and our rights to survival... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM Our number one mission is to get people into something safe, sanitary, private, and out of public sh... BRAD GAIR Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-e... JOSEF PIEPER It hurt us from that point of view. We had our practice all ready to go as we always do, but specifi... TOM RENNEY Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our exist... MILES FRANKLIN Many of our Latino kids, that we have in our system, are brilliant kids.... but, we as a system have... ANDREW KELLY Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. HOSEA BALLOU Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit. HOSEA BALLOU It's a timing issue for us as much as anything. We just needed a cash infusion to pay our bills imme... DAN PACKER We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems... BOB RILEY I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything t... MARTIN BUBER We ask the public for a lot of support as it is. We would have to be careful that anything that we w... BILL RAGLIN Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. JOSEPH STALIN That is too long for a club of our stature. We need to put that right as soon as possible. We want t... ANDY GOODE We're working with vendors to tailor products for our members' needs. We view it as a service for ou... KAREN ROSS Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals. HAROLD WASHINGTON We hope that as soon as all the hoops and loops have been gone through that we will be able to tie i... ANNE DUNN Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert... ROBERT WILSON Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert... ROBERT ANTON WILSON I really thought I was bringing something new to the table, both artistically and [as a producer], .... MICHAEL RITCHIE We eagerly look forward to seeing our domestic players. We want to do the best job we can of making ... BRUCE ARENA Our points system has never been about winning races. It rewards the team that beats the most people... MATT KENSETH We try to treat every one of our employers as well as we can because it's important for our students... BOB TOMLINSON Our hearts are with him and praying for him, ... We know he's going to be fine. We wish him a speedy... ISAIAH KACYVENSKI Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our ... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world v... CHRISTINA BALDWIN As long as George Bush is president, we are going to create a permanent class system, ... And we're ... HOWARD DEAN A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I ha... JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Our insistence is that talks must be held as soon as possible. We also affirm that the violence must... PALITHA KOHONA Josh was there for us, and we were very proud of him. He's one of our stars as well as one of the co... MARK MORBERG As soon as we get electricity and our air conditioners running, we'll be good to go. JASON MOHNEY Life's rewards as well as it's short-comings are magnetic reflections of the vivacious energies we r... NETIERA DANISE We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the Afr... PRATIBHA PATIL We want to do this as soon as possible, ... But it's not all in our hands. GLEN STEWART We view our situation as our situation. BOB HERBOLD We are very excited that Janine has decided to join our program. As she learns our systems and bette... JIM MCLAUGHLIN I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER In order for our world to shift, we have to
stop accepting the prevailing knowledge as
right without... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE They just needed to do a better job of what we wanted them to do. Right now, we're inconsistent in o... DOUG MITCHELL We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meani... ERIC HOFFER We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN We also host a catered dinner for each of our season's shows. We have a benefit committee in which w... JEAN DRAGO One who learns from his enemies is as wise as one who learns from his friends. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishme... ALDOUS HUXLEY Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories. ASHOT NADANIAN The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us f... LILLIAN HELLMAN The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us... LILLIAN HELLMAN As we develop a regional economic-development strategy for Erie and Niagara counties, we have identi... JAMES ALLEN I see it as one of those things that our deer hunters should support. We have lobbyists that are dow... JAMES SHROPSHIRE Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible. NICK FLYNN As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviousl... ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers ... BARRY GIBB Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many pro... RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER If you're going to do everything wrong in one night, hopefully, we'll get it all out of our system. ... AL MELNICK We're excited to sign Kenji and believe that this signing is one more step in our transition, ... As... BILL BAVASI It is one thing not to know exactly all we should be doing to protect our homeland. It is something ... HILLARY CLINTON We will have a chance as a team and as fans to pay our respects to John in front of the whole countr... ALAN PARDEW At time of peace, we should love one another. At war, we should set our minds as the hunters. TOBA BETA If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome ev... RAMEZ NAAM One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll! MARCUS MAYO Our conduct should be such that we are loved by one and all..the high as well as the low. It also de... ATHARVA VEDA We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none t... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none t... T.S. ELIOT So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our f... MIKE NORTON Typically, our customers don't push out our buses. And for their safety, we would just as soon they ... JULIE JOHANSON
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