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• The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Men, Race

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• I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

  Black Elk

  Two, Vision, Would Be

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• Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

  Marjorie Holmes

  People, Remember, Let Me

  Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations with God”, Bantam

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• Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

  Marla Gibbs

  Culture, Heritage, Alive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

  Tina Turner

  Common Sense, Giving, Worry

  "Tina Turner's tips for staying sexy at 70 as she embarks on another world tour". www.mirror.co.uk. February 02, 2009.

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• I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

  Sara Blakely

  Thinking, Way, Perceive

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• I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

  Ben Hogan

  Mean, Golf, Done

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• Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Grieving, Clouds, Hands

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• The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Joy, Forfeit, Justification

  Martin Luther (1972). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.33, CCEL

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• The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

  Dave Ramsey

  Decision, Debt, Conditions

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Sep 06, 2013

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• Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fall, Greatness, Humanity

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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• One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

  Albert Camus

  Path, Discovering, Recognise

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

  Camryn Manheim

  Believe, Nuts, Fudge

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• Of course I have bad hair days; I’m human.

  Ryan Lochte

  Hair, Humans, Bad Hair Day

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• You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Two, People

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• It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Sea, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

  Richard Rodriguez

  Religious, Watches, My Friends

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• As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Practice, Democracy, Socialism

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• I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

  Story Musgrave

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Thinking

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal"". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Black And White, Views

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Photographer

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• I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.

  Dave Gibbons

  Drs, Film, Resonance

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• If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Team, Students, Online

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• I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Firsts, Students

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• A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Children, Medicine, Corn

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.146

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