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• The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Ice Cream, Self

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• When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

  Ralph Marston

  Perspective, Finding Yourself, Complaining

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• This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

  George W. Bush

  Daring, Ready For Change, Decent

  George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2000.

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• If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

  Ovid

  Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

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• Part of me was saying if you say that she's alive, what would everybody think? What are you going to tell everybody who followed you, who you've inspired? What are you going to say? I was scared. That's the truth. I was just scared, and I didn't know what to do.

  Manti Te'o

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Te'o says he 'didn't lie' publicly, but was 'scared' to tell full story of girlfriend hoax" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2013.

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• If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

  Larry Bird

  Play, Teammate, Able

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

  Hugh Laurie

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• I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

  Isaac Asimov

  Hate, Labels, Millennials

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• Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Differences, Littles

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.64, Discovery House

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• If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Prepared, Ifs

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• Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Faces, Stability

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• A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

  Marianne Williamson

  Levels, Knees, Scared

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• The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acting, Culture, Actors

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• I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.

  Louise Hay

  Forgiving, Wells, Healed

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• A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Travel, Journey, Men

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Men, Waiting

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• The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forever, Dies

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.308, Editora Dracaena

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• INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
  beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always
  waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact
  you are in tune with the Infinite.

  B. J. Palmer

  Waiting, Tunes, Infinite

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• The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  New York, Ideas, Breakfast Food

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Feminist

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

  Henri Bergson

  Nature, Real, Order

  "An Introduction to Metaphysics".

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• It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Arguing, Apologetic

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• Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Winning, Challenges

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• Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

  Howard Stern

  Night, All Time Low, Gone

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