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  • Jeremy Taylor When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Cass McCombs When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Will Rogers When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Calvin Coolidge When you see 10 troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, 9 of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Barbara Boxer When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Bryson When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Ann Coulter When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Michael LeBoeuf When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Carole King When you're down and troubled
    And you need some loving care
    And nothing, nothing is going right.
    Close your eyes and think of me
    And soon I will be there
    To brighten up even your darkest nights.
    Tapestry (1971) Youve Got a Friend
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Robert M. Hutchins Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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  • Billy Gardell Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Mark Twain Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barry Manilow Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Mark Twain Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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