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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aaron Carter Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Sam Rayburn Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bart Starr Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Franz Kafka Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alex Haley Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Al Hirschfeld Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
    Al Hirschfeld
     
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  • Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Benazir Bhutto As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • B. D. Wong As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Carol Ann Duffy As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
    Source: Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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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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  • Bill Engvall As my wife says, I'll never fully retire, but it'll start to slow down. I'll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won't be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Ben Hogan As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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