"Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?"
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"Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative."
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"Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head."
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"I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless."
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"What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business."
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"Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case."
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"Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone."
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"I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me. Promise to always give you me, the real me."
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"People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about."
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"I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches."
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"I give my all to live a life that is worthy of the favor I have received. I don't always hit the mark, but I continue to press towards it each day. New mercies every morning... Give thanks for that."
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"Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress."
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"Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions."
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"I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me."
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"Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing."
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"I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel."
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"There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security."
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"Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream."
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"I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto."
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"This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise."
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