Confucius Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
Paige VanZant
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
Parker Palmer
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Nate Diaz
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
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There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.
George C. Scott
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
J. I. Packer
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
Confucius