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Everywhere and in all things I have learned both
... APOSTLE PAUL Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark. DON CORNELIUS Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t... NAZIM AMBALATH I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten): 1. Share everything. 2. Play fair.... ROBERT FULGHUM Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo... NORMAN VINCENT PEALE ...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a t... LAINI TAYLOR If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important. JEFF OLSON There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you! LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... AYN RAND I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho... E.A. BUCCHIANERI We learned about mortgages, how to figure out what you qualify for, the points and all the terminolo... ERIC ROSENBERG I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all. KARA WALKER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d... THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because th... TABATHA COFFEY Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions. PARUL WADHWA Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang... JAMES CLAVELL You know, here we were, all of us doomed, I thought -- the whole country doomed -- and here, in what... ADOLF HITLER Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ALAN BEAN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of... JACK RAMSAY We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD Never underestimate the power of giving a book! CARMELA DUTRA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her. MICHELLE HODKIN There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Sov... ERIC BOGOSIAN [F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn't require a portion of one's body and soul? JAMIE KORNEGAY How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a cra... BERYL MARKHAM Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST There is so much stuff I can take away from this season and go back and look at. I learned about how... 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ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi... ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl... ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno... ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's... ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi... ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i... ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ... ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge... ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear... ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t... ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati... ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes... ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. ROBERT MUGABE