"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."
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"Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him."
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"Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was.""
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"I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board"
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"Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice."
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"The tree does not die, it waits."
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"Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast."
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"Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure."
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"We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off."
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"Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot."
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"Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?"
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"I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does."
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"To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy."
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"Everything comes to the man who won't wait."
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"No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song."
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"It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times."
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"Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx."
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"Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives."
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"Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is."
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"If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels."
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