What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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