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• The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Men

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• It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Hurt, Business

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• It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

  Will Rogers

  Cost, Taxes, Ten

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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• Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Cells, Humanity, Religion

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• If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.

  Hammurabi

  Taken, Men, Garden

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• This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

  Marc Forgione

  Native American, Kids, Warrior

  "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, People

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• Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Years, Enlightenment

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• In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have used it most effectively, to manipulate men; it's a justifiable reaction that has been necessary for survival.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Survival

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• There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Promise, Covenant

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.404

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• How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Bored, Littles

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• Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Leader

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Player, Practice

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• The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Understanding, Present Life, Emote

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Bird

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Giving, Mind

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• That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Mad, Married

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• I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.

  Paige VanZant

  Ufc, Mma, Pressure

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• Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

  Marvin Gaye

  Expression, Nostalgia, Mercy

  Song: Mercy, Mercy Me

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• San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

  Herb Caen

  Humorous, San Francisco, Used To Be

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

  David Gries

  Humorous, Algorithms, Should

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• Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, Enjoy Life

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• You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

  Tom Dreesen

  Running, Bad Day, Years

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