I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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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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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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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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