"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
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"Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next."
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"The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next."
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"The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims."
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"Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves."
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"One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions."
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"You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does."
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"How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!"
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"When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it"
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"But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next."
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"Your best posture is your next posture."
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"One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next."
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"The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable."
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"Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one."
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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?"
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"The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'"
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"I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next."
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"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one."
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"Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven."
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"Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'"
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