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have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA It'll be good to get Blue back. You could say he has a burr on, because he missed the first playoff ... RYAN CLARK He likes to come at it from a different angle. He likes to get to the root of the thought and tries ... BEN CRANE If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to... DREW HOUSTON I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Choose your words before talking SOTONYE ANGA You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... DEYTH BANGER When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of ... JASON REITMAN A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the... AULIQ-ICE [In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators... IRVING LANGMUIR Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Hard core superstar by far you're the ultimate star. Do you wanna be a superstar? Well that's what y... TEGAN QUIN Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?&... MARINA ABRAMOVIC We're really not going to get into a back and forth about it. The governor respects him, likes him a... DOUG SCOFIELD All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN
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