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Tom Sharpe quote: "The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to..."
The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics. Tom Sharpe
When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of... Gerard Way
Norman Vincent Peale quote: "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them...."
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. Norman Vincent Peale
Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you. Charles de Lint
Image of an image of an image... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is, or might be, real. Enough to play the game, or try to play it. A mistake to tally up the score. Susan Sontag
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final. Learned Hand
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.) Sue Monk Kidd
Sylvia Plath quote: "I love my rejection slips. They show me I try."
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself..."
and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world Jeffrey Eugenides
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you..."
Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! Diana Wynne Jones
So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith. Sue Monk Kidd
Billy Connolly quote: "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea..."
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. Billy Connolly
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
Neil Peart quote: "Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you."
Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you. Neil Peart
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. Madeleine Albright

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