"If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion."
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"More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look."
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"Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder."
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"Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct."
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"The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."
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"Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians."
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"The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to."
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"Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously."
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"Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day."
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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."
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"...there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others."
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"We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else."
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"Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers."
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"Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job."
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"Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art."
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"Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving"
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"If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver."
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"I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing."
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"Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science."
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"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
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