Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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