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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed… — Lillian Hellman
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the… — Billy Joel
I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you...I think that it's time to take… — Margaret Cho
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad… — Aristotle
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to… — Audre Lorde
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on… — Peter Singer
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we… — Natalie Goldberg
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that… — Noam Chomsky
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because… — Matthew Henry
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it… — Thomas Jefferson
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand… — David R. Brower
Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into… — Steven Morrissey
I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I… — Steven Morrissey
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. — John Steinbeck
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness… — Aristotle
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on… — Mark Twain
I don't take drugs, I take books. — Ingeborg Bachmann
In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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