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Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and ... ALLISON WILLIAMS You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster! ISAAC ASIMOV A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO 15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues ... JAMES C. DOBSON dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i... ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything... JOHN LENNON 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and... MARGARET SPELLINGS In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. 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Remember always--all you did for me.” -I... ISAAC ASIMOV Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, si... ISAAC ASIMOV A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of consi... ISAAC ASIMOV A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually rem... ISAAC ASIMOV There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. N... ISAAC ASIMOV If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. I... ISAAC ASIMOV That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I bel... ISAAC ASIMOV University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now ... ISAAC ASIMOV A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written ISAAC ASIMOV A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First o... ISAAC ASIMOV The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European... ISAAC ASIMOV To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to... ISAAC ASIMOV A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [Th... ISAAC ASIMOV I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ISAAC ASIMOV Nunca dejes que la moral te impida dejar de hacer lo que está bien ISAAC ASIMOV It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn ISAAC ASIMOV The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eure... ISAAC ASIMOV To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ISAAC ASIMOV