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Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace… — Unknown Author
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. — Henry Cisneros
Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming. — Don King
Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care… — Don King
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. — Marcus Aurelius
The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just… — Rajneesh
Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this… — Jim Clyburn
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in… — H. L. Mencken
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given… — C.S. Lewis
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,… — Peter Abelard
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held… — Macklemore
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since… — Josh Turner
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that. — Sidney Sheldon
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle
I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a… — Pete Rose
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see… — Diane Arbus
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given… — Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration… — Thomas Jefferson
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor… — Thomas Jefferson

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