Les Brown Quotes
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
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Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!
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She was someone who was full of life ... She represented everything that was wonderful about Sweden and about Europe.
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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
