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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all. Jean-Paul Sartre
Heaven is for thee too high. To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there. Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed. John Milton
Dwight D. Eisenhower quote: "Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win. Roger Milla
Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. Tatjana Patitz
Lester Bangs quote: "Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain."
Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain. Lester Bangs
Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass! Fannie Flagg
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I'm getting some really good work. And because I'm delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way. Sanjay Dutt
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If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Rush Limbaugh
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This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. Richard Schickel
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. Charles Spurgeon
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I,... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze."I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing... but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat. Spider Robinson
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Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film. James Van Der Beek
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If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. John Wooden