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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fi... DON LEMON When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don... CAMERON DIAZ Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don... CHRIS CRUTCHER Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMP... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. Yo... MIKE DITKA There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don'... 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CARL LEWIS Life is about timing. CARL LEWIS What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you... LEWIS BLACK ... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denom... C.S. LEWIS If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should... C.S. LEWIS It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is ... C.S. LEWIS Sentence first, verdict afterwards. LEWIS CARROLL I am fond of children--except boys. LEWIS CARROLL Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo... LEWIS MORRIS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that ... LEWIS THOMAS The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc... LEWIS MUMFORD They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hou... ALEX LEWIS We know they have a lot of long, athletic guys that like to take it up and down the floor a lot. The... ALEX LEWIS Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it w... ALEX LEWIS We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've... ALEX LEWIS They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits. ALEX LEWIS Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f... ALEX LEWIS