A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

Author: Beau Willimon

Author: Beau Willimon

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The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never

Author: Thomas C. Foster
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If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.

Author: Unknown
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Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer)

Author: Charles de Leusse
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Stop thinking you can't do something. All those thoughts you have going on in your head are made up

Author: Iva Ursano
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Hurry," she breathed. "I need you to fill me up." "Baby, I'm gonna do more than that.

Author: Robin Bielman
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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Author: Yiddish Proverb
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Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might.

Author: Mitt Romney
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Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!

Author: Anthony Liccione
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That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front

Author: Xavier Dolan
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The first thing that success would teach you is to differentiate the good and bad people around you

Author: Deepika Muthusamy
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There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and ret

Author: William Gibson
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It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the thi

Author: Jon Krakauer
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IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

Author: Pema Chödrön
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Every mom has her own battle. Win yours without being 'nyinyir' to others.

Author: Jihan Davincka
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By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power

Author: Cass Sunstein
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Live like the season is ending and the birds are leaving, fight against the winds of the fall like t

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning lin

Author: Alyscia Cunningham
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the

Author: Don Marquis
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I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jil

Author: C.S. Lewis
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I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

Author: J.Z. Colby
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Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overco

Author: Paulo Coelho
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One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way

Author: Jude Watson
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When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will o

Author: Mary Crocker Cook
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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Author: Bruce Lee
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I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar.

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
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We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

Author: Havelock Ellis
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Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer

Author: Cole Ryan
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We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize h

Author: JP Robinson
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Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfo

Author: Ilchi Lee
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Author: Bertrand Russell
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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Author: Newt Gingrich
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Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’l

Author: Lee Argus
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Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now

Author: John Bunyan
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In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help exp

Author: William J. Clinton
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of ly

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and

Author: George Sand
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Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

Author: Ricky Maye
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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and ey

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

Author: Robert Ludlum
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...And while you are alive, there are situations that may crush your bones and body to take away you

Author: Levon Peter Poe
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Persistence is the source of great strength.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a conditi

Author: Kent Nerburn
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Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism

Author: Melanie Phillips
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Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

Author: Pearl Zhu
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She'd expected some backlash

Author: Unknown
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov

Author: Khalil Gibran
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Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.

Author: E.M. Markoff
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Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. W

Author: Marilyn Machlowitz
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If you wish for pearls, pray always.

Author: Unknown
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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... thei

Author: Malala Yousafzai
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Everything good starts with caring.

Author: Shampa Sharma
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The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.

Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
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That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they mig

Author: Gregory Galloway
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Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces i

Author: Paul Shepheard
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Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but

Author: Ray Bradbury
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Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to

Author: Lilit Marcus
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

Author: Alexander the Great
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Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is ofte

Author: Timothy Ferriss
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Some Memories are better be destroyed.. you never know when do you fall in love with someone, and wh

Author: Himmilicious
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Author: Ernest Newman
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Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed

Author: Ambrose Bierce
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No. Merely a trick of the light. But I had the impression you were seeking something more formal tha

Author: Alyssa Day
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The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

Author: C.S. Lewis
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause

Author: Horatio Nelson
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Comprehension is the ability to follow an explanation.Understanding is the ability to be able to lea

Author: Cody Edward Lee Miller
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You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

Author: Max McKeown
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My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borde

Author: Josephine de La Baume
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We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith.

Author: Unknown
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Author: Dean Inge
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Author: Diogenes of Sinope
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Hi,' he says.'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.'You know,' Nick

Author: Jennifer E. Smith
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A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afte

Author: Jean Paul Richter
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching

Author: Ma Jian
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As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be

Author: Clifford A. Pickover
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Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we

Author: Claire Fontaine
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Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

Author: Margaret Way
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He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't kno

Author: Derek Landy
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In the middle of the storm, the ‘a’ of the atheist drops!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that t

Author: Patti Smith Just Kids
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My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly na

Author: Alexandra Robbins
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Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!

Author: Rachel Rueben
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If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system I definitely want to be unplugged but n

Author: Henriette Montel
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If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

Author: Wendy Beck
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The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.

Author: Charles Lee
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Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
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She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a mill

Author: Fiona Wood
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Some sinister secret lay buried in the heart of the graveyard!

Author: Rajib Mukherjee
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Every Child Deserves A Chance To Live Their Own Dream

Author: Phil Mitchell
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One of the best things I learned from my parents was to be HONEST and work HARD!

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
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I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

Author: Kourtney Kardashian
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It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, r

Author: Billy Graham
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We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our wa

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in th

Author: Matt Fitzgerald
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Be happy, be fun, let your hair down and be AGELESS!

Author: Margo Vader
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Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more th

Author: Martin L. Kutscher