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  • If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
  • One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
  • The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
  • There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
  • We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
  • I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
  • I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
  • The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
  • When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
  • Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Dedman 'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ivan Turgenev ... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord George Byron A man must serve his time to every trade save censure - critics all are ready made.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Cartland A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Edward Abbey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
    Edward Abbey
    American author and essayist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Robert Collier All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Caitlin Doughty All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Arianna Huffington America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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