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ABRAMS If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL (Being on the short list) means that Luck will have more readers, which, of course, is always the pu... JOAN BARFOOT I think they're beginning to get a little more relaxed. The hardest part is just getting a basketbal... GAYLE GREEN People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what... ROBERT FOGEL Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans... GARY F EVANS... If you have a felony offense it denotes more seriousness and if you'd seen magnum and the suffering ... JULIE BREAULT I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation... MARC ANDREESEN If you want it residential, that means you would have to upgrade the stairways, and if you upgrade t... JOSEPH SATER It's always something we do well. We always count on our defense more than our offense. It's one of ... AANIKA DOBBINS If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat... CRAIG GROESCHEL There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still b... BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still ... BRYAN MCCANN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN The more games you play, the more chance you have of playing a bad game on offense. Your defense can... TOMMY TUBERVILLE There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can s... BRYAN MCCANN Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. KINKY FRIEDMAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... What the citizens will notice is that many more things will become available not only through the We... KRIS SIGFRIDSON I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve... ORSON SCOTT CARD They also have to be grafted and pruned. That makes them more expensive. If you want to save money o... FRANCIE SCHROEDER Inhale every blessing you can think of, and exhale all that is not. Like a fist that can always get ... ACE ANTONIO HALL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a ... MARCUS GARVEY 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 because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one wil... ORSON SCOTT CARD When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No ene... ANWARSHAH ANWARY I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. ... CALVIN COOLIDGE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to A... LAFCADIO HEARN We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons,... STEVE YZERMAN To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that ... OSHO Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 The less y... MEISTER ECKHART You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become t... HOWARD L. SALTER Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now ... MILAN KUNDERA Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than... CECELIA AHERN I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ... MATT KUCHAR If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ... THEA HARRISON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only wa... EMMELINE PANKHURST What it means is that you make choices. And the choices are that we have forwards, and we want to lo... DARCY REGIER I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into th... AL YANKOVIC Our first 10 minutes out of the locker room (in the second half) is something we can't do. We let ou... STEVE ALFORD You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, an... BEAU WILLIMON And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... 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ELAYNE BOOSLER Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The unfinished business will always come after you. Whatever you fail to kill will hunt your childre... SAMUEL T. PADMORE The only point that I'm trying to make is that if they tell you to evacuate, you do it. That's the o... JOHN PORTER The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The mor... RALPH MARSTON The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you... GLENN DOMAN In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every d... CAITLIN MORAN I think everyone can succeed more. That's the whole thing with the West Coast Offense. You've got to... 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JAMES BALDWIN So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ... ROGER BALDWIN For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting... JAMES BALDWIN The future is... black. JAMES BALDWIN Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom... JAMES BALDWIN Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop... JAMES BALDWIN James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on... JAMES BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze... JAMES BALDWIN There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e... JAMES BALDWIN Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. JAMES BALDWIN Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. JAMES BALDWIN Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is... JAMES BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. JAMES BALDWIN No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ... JAMES BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo... JAMES BALDWIN Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion... JAMES BALDWIN There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou... JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita... JAMES BALDWIN It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel... JAMES BALDWIN Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s... JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change. JAMES BALDWIN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si... JAMES BALDWIN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ... JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc... JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit... JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ... JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre... JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu... JAMES BALDWIN