If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
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BILL CLEGG I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ... ALBERT EINSTEIN I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When peopl... KRISTIN ARMSTRONG Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whet... ADAM LEVIN I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meani... ALBERT SCHWEITZER And that's the main buzz with betting games like this. Every weekend, whether I bet or not, I go thr... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for materi... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I demand the right to fail; I demand it. If I have no right to fail, my success is hollow. 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I have my own schedule and do my own th... MARIA SHARAPOVA I dont follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thi... MARIA SHARAPOVA If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me... CALVIN COOLIDGE I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job.... JACK MCBRAYER I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to ... VICTOR ORTIZ Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly t... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I've got much in my life that's so good: my wife, my children, my friends. I don't need anything fil... GLEN PHILLIPS John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. 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Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on... FRANK SINATRA No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations ... SUSAN SCHAEFFER MACAULAY I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day. MICHAEL PHELPS I beg your lordship's patience till I can procure my papers. I cannot plead until I have those paper... 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That was a big differen... JOHN JAMES Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people
don't recognize them. JOHN JAMES INGALLS Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. JOHN JAMES INGALLS I knock unbidden once at every gate--
If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
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JAMES DEAN I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w... JAMES DEAN I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end... JAMES DEAN The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen. JAMES DEAN Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im... JAMES DEAN There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. JAMES DEAN The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. JAMES DEAN You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'... JAMES DEAN Racing is the only time I feel whole. JAMES DEAN Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life... JAMES DEAN I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ... JAMES DEAN Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. KEVIN JAMES The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why... JAMES WOODS I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p... JAMES HIBBERD Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current... WILLIAM JAMES Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th... JAMES HOWE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... WILLIAM JAMES Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,... JAMES LANKFORD I'm a big cardigan sweater guy. JAMES FRANCO No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ... JAMES MARSDEN I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they... LILY JAMES You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a... JAMES SUROWIECKI Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho... JAMES HECKMAN Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. WILLIAM JAMES No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin... JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks. JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ... JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y... JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability. LEBRON JAMES Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l... LEBRON JAMES But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ... LEBRON JAMES