If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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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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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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