Carrie Jones Quotes
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
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The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.
Dalai Lama
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So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.
H. L. Mencken
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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
Immanuel Kant
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strippers should be role-models for little girls. If only for the fact that they wax their assholes.
Sarah Silverman
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
Thomas Carlyle
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Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
Madeleine Albright
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Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.
Alexander McQueen
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Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.
Kanye West
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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Alphonsus Liguori
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[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."
Barack Obama
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!
Yasmin Mogahed
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison
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A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Douglas Jerrold
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I like to sing R&B slow jams. It's always been my thing.
William Singe
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You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
Simon Mawer
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And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.
Michael Burry
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There needs to be a turn-off button for noses. This is too much.
Carrie Jones