Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully."
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Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry."
Joy Williams
Author
"Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly."
Jack London
Novelist, Journalist
"It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all."
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"I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%."
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"Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history."
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"If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not."
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"Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it."
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"Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free."
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"It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!"
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"Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!"
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"The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering."
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"And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better."
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"Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you."
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"Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?"
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"One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent."
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"I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist."
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"Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do."
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"The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course."
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"The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history"
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"Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!"
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"But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God."
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"Soup is cuisines kindest course"
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"Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm."
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