Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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