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Wendell Phillips

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KELLY JONES There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is...
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
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SOTONYE ANGA Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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RUDOLPH DELSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
NEWTON D. BAKER The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
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CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
JACK MA A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
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PHILIP T. M. Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The detentions will continue today, tomorrow and the day after.
MOHAMED HABIB beauty is often very relative, just as what is decent in Japan is indecent in Rome, and what is fash...
VOLTAIRE Prepare YOURSELF today, as if the examination is tomorrow
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JEANETTE CORON If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
GYPSY SMITH What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do yo...
J.K. SIMMONS Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER We are confident that the delegates will deliver today and elect Peter David Phillips as the next pr...
PAUL ROBERTSON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
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BEJI CAID ESSEBSI They want to talk to you tomorrow.”
“Tomo…” Chase choked on the word. “As in the day ...
ADRIENNE WILDER He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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HASIM RAHMAN A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'tr...
BOY GEORGE See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Today is a stepping stone for tomorrow. The bigger the stone you climb today, the higher up you'll b...
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EMINEM Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
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NOW IS GOOD I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the p...
BABATUNDE OLATUNJI The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Today is the start of a new tomorrow!
FAYE STEVENSON Believe in today,for today is the gateway to a blissful tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorro...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...
CLARENCE DARROW fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
PAULO COELHO We need to look at what we are going to do, for the next 21 days. We need to look beyond today, tomo...
MARY WORMINGTON Tomorrow is just another today, so spend every today like there is no tomorrow.
ANDREA ANDREEVA This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.
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C. JOYBELL C. The focus this week is on Greenspan tomorrow.
JAMES BLUMENTHAL The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the r...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the...
ROBERT H GODDARD It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the r...
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WENDELL BERRY 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...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES 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 ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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