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• my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

  Dorothy Allison

  Book, Survival, Dying

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• ... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

  Loni Anderson

  Way, Hard Way, Hard

  Loni Anderson (1995). “My Life in High Heels”, William Morrow & Company

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• It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Men, Skins, Neighbor

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• Holland?lies so low they're only saved by being dammed.

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Lying, Lows, Holland

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• Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Optimistic, Views

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Flower, Men

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• One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

  Cyra McFadden

  Thinking, Race, Would Be

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• He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

  Saint Patrick

  Believe, Doe, Apostles

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• Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

  Martin Luther

  Strange, Sin, Sinning

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• My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Hurt, Addiction, Bulimia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.

  Steven Pressfield

  Numbers, Dvds, Quality

  Source: goinswriter.com

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• People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

  Julian Simon

  Grateful, Doctors, Years

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• We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

  John Angell James

  Church, Individual, Interest

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 226, 1895.

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• If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Truth, Doors, Giving

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• Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal.
  The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul.
  Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night:
  Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.

  Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

  Night, Fire, Goal

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• When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

  Hoda Kotb

  Fashion, Night, Shoes

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• So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Suffering, Blinded

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.174

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• They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

  Bill Maher

  Japan, Regulation, Saws

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Hats

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• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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• I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.

  Andre Nel

  Trying, Use, Way

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• I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

  Zubin Mehta

  Doctors, Medicine, Live By

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• Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

  JJ Feild

  Different, World, Pennies

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, America

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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