Everyone has the impulse to be elite.


Alfre Woodard

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I would like to be mentioned with all the top guys, all the elite guys. Everyone wants to be one of ...
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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
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The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th...
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something ...
CHARLIE PIERCE
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
BILL KELLER
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
PRINCESS DIANA
The person who swears in public has a loss of impulse control.
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It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
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He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.
BOB FRANCIS
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.
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I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
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To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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That's elite territory, and that's where we want to be.
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The impulse purchase is gone. Now we have to be a destination.
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Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has eve...
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Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
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Everyone has the right to be made fun of.
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I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organ...
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We are drawn to stories,” he says in a soft voice, “and every scar carries one.
MARIE LU
According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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People feel we passed through a moment that everyone wanted, everyone wished for, and then the polit...
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It's a a damn good day to be alive.
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Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book.
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As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.
JOHN ALLEN
Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothin...
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The sad heart needs work to do.
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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to...
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the pers...
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
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