Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'
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She's not a bad girl becauseShe made me see, hmmm...How love could be.But she's a bad girl because (bad girl because)She wants to be free, hmmmm... (bad girl because)She wants to be free (bad girl)
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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It was amazing how quickly the silence fell on the crowd. It went from being so loud that you could barely hear the guys 20 feet away on the on-deck circle, to hearing my own footsteps loud and clear as I rounded the bases…that's never happened to me before.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.
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Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
