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ANTHONY T. HINCKS We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Life is really a bed of roses, others are just lucky to have friends to help them pick the thorns of... UNKNOWN We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience... DAVID HENRY HWANG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodime... JOSEPH BRODSKY Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it... NATASHA TRETHEWEY We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. I... MIKE GORDON Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you'r... MAYA ANGELOU Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I wou... YOKO ONO Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL There will be an awareness event at the Lincoln Memorial (Saturday) from 11 to 1, and the quilts wil... ANNE TYSON I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO Normally, we're never satisfied. CRAIG GROESCHEL We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and ... WILLIAM GOLDING But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hi... JANE FONDA Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're... TOMMY LEE If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all ... KATE DEL CASTILLO Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky. AL PACINO The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a... HERBIE HANCOCK The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God. L.J. VANIER The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER We have strong information as to their clothing and we're hopeful that we will have the identificati... BOB THOMAS If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, ... DEREK JETER Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we... STUDS TERKEL It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more... CARLISLE FLOYD If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be ve... PATRICK WHITESELL All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One. ANITA B. SULSER It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harde... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Our goal all along was to get at least one win from Reno, Carson and Douglas. Those are the three te... ROB HASTINGS The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a... MEL GIBSON As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire... DOUG HARVEY We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us. GARY BARLOW How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gon... AXL ROSE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll! MARCUS MAYO Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. JUDY BLUME You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're pres... AARON SORKIN Certainly hunting and fishing are a big part of outdoor recreation but of our nine interactive villa... JACK NUGENT It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are consc... ALAN LIGHTMAN What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other.... DAVID O. RUSSELL We are working to have at least one other alliance by the end of the year, SERGIO MARCHIONNE We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Kore... STEVE LARGENT Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with ... JON FAVREAU Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a ... MICKEY ROONEY From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being ... CARL SAFINA With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose... KEVIN NEALON People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be h... MICHAEL DELL Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at a... OSCAR PETERSON When you?re up 9-0 it?s supposed to be easy. But things are rarely easy in college baseball, and fro... CHARLIE HICKEY America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love... CHUCK TODD Any conversation with Smith turned up at least one bit of human behavior which could not be justifie... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're v... KEITH EMERSON With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our ... RICHARD BRANSON Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn'... JASON SILVA All of our jackets for NASCAR, major league baseball, the NBA, are licensed. We even made a jacket f... CRAIG GIBSON There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if... MICHAEL HANEKE You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes yo... JOHN ABERCROMBIE I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W... AKIROQ BROST
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