The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

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- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
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DANIEL MELGAçO

Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
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The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.

Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exis...
DEEPAK CHOPRA

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
ROBERT STONE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
H.L. DAVIS What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
ROBERT STONE We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not k...
NELSON MANDELA What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You ...
DEYTH BANGER Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the envir...
DONALD NORMAN Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnifice...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL [The homes swallowed by floodwaters posed a question the couple had never pondered:] What are they [...
BILL COOPER You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?
GRACE DRAVEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We have to have very good information to sustain these projects. In order to get a program in effect...
MATT ROBUS In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C. Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What ...
DANIEL SCHORR Ongea unachoweza kutenda.
ENOCK MAREGESI You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY If we don't educate these kids, what happens to them? ... That's a question we have to answer.
DAN STEIN Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we w...
WILLIAM BARCLAY This could be his wake. What can he do after this?
HANAN CRYSTAL Now a very important moment has come for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to go there (Iraq),
YEVGENY PRIMAKOV Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... gratitude
noun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\

1. The word thrown in your face by peop...
SHANNON L. ALDER Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons it...
KILROY J. OLDSTER People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What you have within you in your life is what you are after death. If you have explored it to some e...
BELSEBUUB You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What h...
JIM ROHN ...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did ...
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TIM CAHILL When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ...
NICOLE KIDMAN If you want to coach, then that should be what you do, ... You have to want to wake up in the mornin...
JAMES MCKEAN We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO We want to make it clear to the U.N. Secretary-General ( Kofi Annan ) himself that those sites are w...
NIZAR HAMDOON One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have bee...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER We didn't wake up until the fourth inning. After that we played 11 innings of pretty good baseball. ...
BARRY RUSSELL We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY If you were blessed to wake up this morning, remember that you have indeed won the grand universal l...
INSHAN MEAHJOHN Let's just imagine that we adopt it and today we issued that statement -- then what happens after tw...
ANDREI DENISOV Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I am hopeful, confident and optimistic that with goodwill on all sides we will be able to implement ...
JAYANTHA DHANAPALA I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH [U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the Northern Alliance] to respect their obligations und...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We are overjoyed. It says what we have known all along -- that he is no longer a suspect in the bomb...
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The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

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