Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.

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Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good wo

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Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

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If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by

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The last slaveholder has been dead for a very long time. The last soldier to endure Valley Forge has

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I enjoy sports in person.

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Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

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A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something

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If you're going to choose to do something like the Paleo Diet, then you choose not to enjoy your nig

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be

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Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with yo

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I'm pleased to be with you. (Pause) That concludes my prepared r

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It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of ot

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I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never

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22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next f

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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had th

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It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success

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People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the o

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You gotta fish or cut bait,man.This has gone on long enough. You're playing with fire, every damn ti

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That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there.""Which one is me?" I asked."The little deformed o

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I stifled a yawn. "It's too early to be such an asshat, Daniel.

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Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

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Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.

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If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

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Some hae meat and canna eat,And some wad eat that want it,But we hae meat and we can eat,And sae the

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You can spend all day trying to think of some universal truth to set down on paper, and some poets t

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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Criminal’ pompousness will not do

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If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessa

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It does not matter the evil you have experienced in your life, it is not God’s plan for you to be un

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Writer is a Film Director of letters.

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He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him. “My every instinct is telling me to have my way w

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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, s

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We were created to be productive

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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam

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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more

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It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them.

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This morning I awoke and was reminded of the preciousness of life. I realized I should express my gr

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John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

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When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes vir

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With great power comes great dissipation.

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I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform s

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There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.

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Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what th

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The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.

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When I was done, his arms were spread wide above his head, secured by the black ties at his wrists.

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The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt,

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What a great pleasure to work for your living?

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You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my

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... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and wh

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Awareness of your shortcomings is a strengthening process.

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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was

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Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face for

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Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear w

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Strive to be happy rather than downhearted or miserable—hopeful rather than resigned and doubtful.

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Above the curving arc of the planet, a mammoth explosion plumed crimson and charcoal then erupted in

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A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

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Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then

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I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

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We are born free.

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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation

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I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.

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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the

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Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to thin

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We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization,

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The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

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Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care h

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I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... I

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I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

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Every New Year brings new expectations, new enthusiasms and new experiences.

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The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.' There was a long silence as Andrew deciphe

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I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range

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Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly -

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Sometimes,I doubt the courage My bones are made ofAnd then,A breath finds her way inAnd her way outT

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Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck,

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I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there

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In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

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No man was ever yet a great poet without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you

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At times, it is better to "just do it" than to "do it right". One reason new year resolutions don't

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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any o

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People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

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Life is the most fascinating journey that you will never ever be able to take again.

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From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by l

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I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and

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We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams

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We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.

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Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid,” I smirk. “We can’t breathe batteryacid, can we?

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I love you as a river loves the sea

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Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenc

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.

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It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is

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