"In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on."
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"If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call."
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""I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
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"We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives."
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"While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like."
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"'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice."
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"The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom."
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"We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were."
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"Silence gives answers."
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"I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs."
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"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
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"Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy."
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"One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry."
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"Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you."
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"If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand."
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"The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving."
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"The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not."
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"For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got."
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"These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about "sanctity"—don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want."
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"Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."
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