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Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

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Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

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A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.

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Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

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The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.

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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

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You can stroke people with words.

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Work is a four letter word!

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

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Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

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Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

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Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

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It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

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If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

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Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

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Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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Why worry when you can pray?

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To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

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There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!

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The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

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Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

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Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be.

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Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.

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When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.

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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

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Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

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Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying -- only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

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Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most without their names being immortalized in any history books. Millions of people have lived and worked and loved and died without making any great claims to fame or fortune. But they aren't forgotten - not by their friends, not by their families. And some of these people, some very special people, are not forgotten even by those who harldy knew them.

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What is faith, but the voluntary act of trust in oneself? What is faith, but the yearning to believe? What is faith, but the lifeblod of every hope and prayer? Faith, my friends, opens the mind to the impossible and gives life to improbable..

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Sometimes you need to make a mess

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A pigeon is the same thing as a dove. Did you know that?

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Someday somebody's going to ask you a question that you should say yes to.

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Life is but a connection of short lasting good moments tied together by long lasting misery

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Of course she found it in the last place she looked. If she hadn't found it, she’d still be looking

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This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I’ll probably make fun of you.

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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself be loved?

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When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?

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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that?

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Time tells the truth.

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Having friends is like wetting your pants, only you can feel its warmth

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Be thankful Be thankful for this day, and you will fill it with joy. Be appreciative of those around you, and they will bring much value to your life. Be grateful for your opportunities, and you'll find yourself making the most of them. Be thankful for what you have, and you'll get more from it. Be grateful for the challenges, and they will help you become stronger. Appreciate the dark, cloudy days and they'll instantly become brighter. Appreciate the sunny days, and you'll enjoy them even more. Those things you take for granted will fade from usefulness as you forget they're even there. By contrast, those things for which you're thankful remain readily available and will grow even stronger as a result of your appreciative attention. Consider how very fortunate you are. Consider it often. The more you count your blessings, the more there will be to count.

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You get credit for what you finish, not what you start.

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Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

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Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -the pig was 'committed

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I'm nothing, yet I'm everything.

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I tried to change the world but people didn’t listen to me they thought I was just a crazy guy trying to fight for a lost cause. I did everything made posters and cards about saving our trees . But then I noticed that I was actually killing trees to do my stupid posters .I also realized that those people who change the world are the minority . How many people were killed because they tried to help the world or simply ignored by society .I noticed that just by working and doing my job as a engineer and making money, which will help economy is better than doing posters and cards.

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If only, If only, life was as simple as it was during childhood.

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I would rather live my life than watch another person's life on T.V.

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The opposite of poverty is enough.

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Some people deserve a second chance; everybody deserves a first.

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Men often blinded by beauty, women, by money

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the best way to get something done is to begin.

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It is an exciting time where the only limits you have are the size of your ideas and the degree of your dedication

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