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  • A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
  • The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
  • On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
  • Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
  • America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
  • Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
  • Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
  • It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
  • People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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  • Hosea Ballou A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Orwell Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carol Roth Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Boz Scaggs This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Camus Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Cesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Yogi Berra Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Buzz Aldrin America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Paul Gauguin Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Bill Maris As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Marian Anderson As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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