My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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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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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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