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• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Clouds, Looks

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• You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Luck

  "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Letting Go, Team

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.

  Susan Brigden

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

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• Creation is ready to serve you, if you just be you.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Creation, Be You

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• They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Knowledge, Missing

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  Dale Archer

  Children, Parenting, Class

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Fighting, Animal, Years

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• What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

  Dean Koontz

  Wisdom, Believe, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.192, Bantam

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• If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. It would be international news and could break the fabric of a club

  Jason Akermanis

  Believe, Good Luck, Player

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• The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

  Ryan Hall

  Errors, Self, Intuition

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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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• Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Thinking, Bosnia, Reconciliation

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2005.

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• If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.

  Toni Kukoc

  Games, Play, Matter

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• It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.

  Cappie Pondexter

  Team, Thinking, Games

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• If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

  Betty Carter

  Heart, Fighting, Hard Times

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• Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Knitting, Take A Deep Breath, Breaths

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• The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For at any time or place and on whatever pretext you stir them up,you will have them ready to face danger,even if they have nothing on their side but their own strength and courage.

  Strabo

  War, Character, Race

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• Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.

  Ernie Harwell

  Faces, Whatever Happens, Happens

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• For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

  John Tillotson

  Christian, Believe, Men

  John Tillotson (1685). “A discourse against transubstantiation”, p.40

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• Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

  Chad Pennington

  Sunday, Play, Guy

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• The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.

  Raymond Loewy

  Adults, Departure, Requirements

  Raymond Loewy (2002). “Never Leave Well Enough Alone”, p.278, JHU Press

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• The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

  Christopher Flavin

  Kyoto, Challenges, Structure

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• You know what, man? I am going to literally — if (Palin) gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready — because you know what? It’s for my country. It’s for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it’s for my country.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

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• Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

  Nelson Algren

  Fighting, Boys, Battle

  Nelson Algren (2010). “A Walk On The Wild Side”, p.26, Canongate Books

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