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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Author: Charles Tremendous Jones
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Author: Nelson Algren
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Author: Gene Fowler
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Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Author: Baron Wessenberg
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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.
Author: Franklyn Broude
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The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
Author: Sharon Anthony Bower
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If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
Author: John Atkinson
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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Author: Walter Benjamin
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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Author: Lord Jeffrey
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If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
Author: Critias Of Athens
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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
Author: James Gordon Bennett
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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Author: Maurice Freehill
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When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Author: Bernard Baily
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Respect is love in plain clothes.
Author: Frankie Byrne
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Author: Fredrich Halm
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Author: Jim Backus
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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
Author: Jimmy Durante
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Author: Quentin Crisp
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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
Author: John Jay Chapman
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Author: John Churton Collins
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
Author: Satchel Paige
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.
Author: Christian Proverb
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A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Author: Lenin (vladimir Ulyanov)
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Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
Author: Sicilian Proverb
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.
Author: General Omar Bradley
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Author: Turkish Proverb
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He that won't be counselled can't be helped.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.
Author: Jon R. Sime
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Author: Anne Bradstreet
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Author: Danny Devito
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Author: Hanmer Parsons Grant
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Author: Ben Jonson
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Author: Jean Kerr
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Author: Stewart Emery
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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Author: Joseph Heller
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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….
Author: Dinah Mulock
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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
Author: Christine Collange
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Author: Euripides
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When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
Author: Michael Isenberg
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Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Author: Latvian Proverb
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Author: Cynthia Heimel
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