Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
Eugene Jarecki
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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
William Goldman
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
Lucille Clifton
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If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
Jim Evans
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If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.
Margaret Atwood
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Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life.
Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
Evelyn Underhill
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If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.
Steven Soderbergh
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.
Bill Konigsberg
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Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.
Jonathan Kozol
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I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.
Maggie Q
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris
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I'm not going to say I'm not ready for a fighter like Canelo Alvarez.
Liam Smith
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
Joanne Harris
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It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
Alex Grey
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
William Morris
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The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes.
Nelson Peltz
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
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We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.
Ernest Thayer
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I've spent more than a decade channeling information for and about men. I'm able to come and use this information, with the help of the research, to hand over the keys to the kingdom to women.
David Zinczenko
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
Rebecca Solnit
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf