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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Source: Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Fuck that! Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo (yeah)
The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo (whoo!)
Top miss, just hit the bangin' bitches in videosSource: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See. -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Source: An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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