The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
#proverbs #name #honor

There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
#quotes #phyllis-diller #children #family

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
#quotes #william-shakespeare #evil

Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #mystery #human

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
#quotes #john-clayton #christianity #holiday #positivity

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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