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Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.


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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.



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Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.



A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.



Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.



Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.



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For those who love... time is eternity.



Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.



The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.



What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.



Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.





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Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.



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You're making an admirable go of it, but in the end, loyalty is about taking aside.



The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.



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There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.



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I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.



Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion.

Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion.



It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.



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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.




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