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Honey I just forgot to duck

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Jack Dempsey

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It was the best of times it was the worst of times

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Charles dickens

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Veni vidi vici

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Julius Caesar

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We are punished by our sin not for them

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Elbert Hubbard

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You can safely assume that you’ve created god in your own image when it turns out god hates all the same people you do

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Anne Lamont

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It is only necessary for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph

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Edmund Burke

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

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Robert frost

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It’s wonderful to claim the liquid mountains of the sky

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Helen Keller

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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish

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Mother Theresa

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10
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People are like stained glass windows

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Elizabeth kubler

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Make the lie big make it simple

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Adolf hitler

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Do all the good you can by all the means you can

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John Wesley

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13
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely

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Lord Acton

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That’s one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind

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Neil Armstrong

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Religion is the opiate of he people

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Karl marx

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16
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Keep you friend closer and your enemies closer

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Sun-Tzu

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Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake

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Napoleonischen Bonaparte

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I haven’t failed I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work

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Thomas Edison

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Shoot for the moon even if you miss you’ll land among he stars

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Les Brown

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In the end we will remember. It the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends

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Martin Luther King jr

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21
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It is curious

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Mark Twain

22
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Half the truth is often a great lie

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Benjamin franklin

23
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The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men

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Plato

24
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Not everything that can be counted countdown

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Albert Einstein

25
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Speak softly and carry a big stick

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Teddy roosevelt

26
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What we do in life echoes into eternity

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Maximus resumes meridius

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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail

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John wooden

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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field

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Dwight d Eisenhower

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When you’re full of bull keep your mouth shut

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Will Rogers

30
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Do not handicap your children by making their lives to easy

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Lazarus long

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Wisdom doesn’t come naturally with age nothing does except wrinkles

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Abigail van Buren

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Even if you are on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there

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Will Rogers

33
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It is impossible to rightly govern the world without god and the Bible

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President George Washington

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The value of life lies not i the length of days

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Montaigne

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We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in gods image

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President Harry s Truman

36
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We are products of our past not prisoners of it

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Rick Warren

37
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Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistible desires

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Mark Twain

38
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How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian?

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Blaise pascal

39
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God does not ask for your ability or your inability only your availability

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Mary Kay ash

40
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As long as you are going to think anyway think big

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Donald trump

41
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I will like be the light for it shows me the way yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars

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Og Mandino

42
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No one can make you inferior without your consent

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Eleanor Roosevelt

43
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If all our misfortunes are laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart

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Socrates

44
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Courage is contagious

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Billy Graham

45
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Doctors said that breaking the four minute mile was impossible

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Roger bannister

46
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing

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Phyllis diller

47
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Being powerful is like a lady

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Margaret thatcher

48
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Political correctness is tyranny with manners

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Charlton heston

49
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You if you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality

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Dostoyevsky

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Liar lunatic or lord

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C S Lewis

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