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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
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So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
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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...
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The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
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Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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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...
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Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
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I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
CATHERINE MADSEN
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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 _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
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Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
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When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS...
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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In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
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And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
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There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
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Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY
We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY
You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR
I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR
If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN
Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE
there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
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I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER
Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT
I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
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I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
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In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE
It's not enough to have the feathers.

You must dare to fly!
CASS VAN KRAH
Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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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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Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE
I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
The world of a writer is a world of imagination reduced to letters
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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)
It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY
How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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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...
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Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
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Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
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Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D.
If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS
We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.
KAYEC JONES
Risk is the unique path to success.
ADRIA J. CIMINO
We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN
Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
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I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see t...
NIKKI ROWE
Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
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Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI
Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.
ANGELA MAYAH SOLSTICE
Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN
Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS
If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
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BILLIE BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE