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6 years

If President Trump is upset now by what "the media" say about him, imagine how he'd feel if he were alive to read what history books will say about him.

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7 years

What the Russians call President Trump: Pocket Man.

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6 years

If you were able, would you choose to live your childhood again? (As it was, not as an opportunity to modify it.)

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If the president is upset now by what "the media" say about him, imagine how he'd feel if he were alive to read what history books will say.

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6 years

Corruption is acceptable to the corrupted. They say, "This is how the world works." This is how their world works. If we allow this to continue, we also become corrupt.

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6 years

If you want people to pay attention to you, pay attention to them.

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7 years

We repeat history not 'cause we've ignored it. We repeat history 'cause we're the same vicious, violent, selfish species we've always been.

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7 years

Your children didn't ask to be born. So please don't make them feel as if they are responsible for their existence. You are. Act so.

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7 years

A response to a Tweet implied I'm "anti-Trump." I will say this: anyone who isn't anti-Trump is profoundly, simply, anti-American. Clear?

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7 years

The worst advice you may get in your entire life is this: You must accept things as they are.

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6 years

No matter how big a house you own, you can be in only one room at a time.

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6 years

Ugliness is manifested more in actions than in appearances.

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6 years

Would you go back to your childhood if you could, not to be able to change the future but just to relive it?

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8 years

Ignorance is not bliss. Knowledge is bliss. Ignorance is ignorance.

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7 years

There comes a time when those in power need to be put in their place. And that place is, decidedly, not in power.

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6 years

The past is distorted. The future is invisible. The present is illusionary.

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6 years

Slowness in learning is often a sign of brilliance.

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7 years

People who say, "Believe me," should not be believed. People who say, "Trust me," should not be trusted. People who say, "Honestly"...

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7 years

President Trump tweeted, "My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families." Warmest? What is this, a thank-you note?

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6 years

Do you ever think you don't belong, and never will belong, wherever here is?

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8 years

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. (Beginning with your children.)

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6 years

If the truth contradicts your belief, it is better to give up your belief than to ignore or disparage the truth.

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7 years

If leaks are leaks of the truth (fact), those people who try to stop them are liars. We probably need more leaks, not fewer. Leak on!

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6 years

Have you ever, however privately, secretly, wished for the death of another human being?

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8 years

Many of us, when we say, "I love you," have no idea who "I" is.

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6 years

I've noticed that when an artist dies--Johnny Winter, Aretha Franklin, lately Mary Oliver--I turn back to their work immediately and immerse myself in it as I never had before, as if I could bring them back to life within myself.

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5 years

Atheists appear to be more tolerant of the religious than the religious are of atheists.

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7 years

It's better to live alone than to live with someone who makes you wish you lived alone.

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6 years

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in America. Ask any Indian." --Robert Orben

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7 years

Who marries for money dies poor.

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7 years

All things become more difficult the longer you don't do them.

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6 years

Birth is luck. Growth is work.

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7 years

The blind leading the blind is not as dangerous as the stupid leading the stupid.

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6 years

The believer of lies is more dangerous than the teller of lies.

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7 years

One reason not to be alone is so you have someone to whom to say this on occasion: "Come and see the moon! You have to see the moon!"

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8 years

A LITTLE LOVE POEM I will never forget the day we met. My song was a solo you made a duet.

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7 years

When you're young, you believe what people tell you. When you're old, you try to tell people what you believe and no one listens to you.

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6 years

Open yourself to everything, but choose wisely what you let in.

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5 years

The ill-informed are more dangerous than the uninformed.

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6 years

You can't make people love you. But you can make people not love you.

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6 years

Sometimes the people who are the hardest on us end up being the people who are the best for us.

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6 years

Many people appear to want "freedom" for themselves, including the freedom to deny freedom to those they feel should not be as "free" as they are.

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7 years

No one can understand the world looking through only one pair of eyes.

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8 years

Barbarians destroy art because they know it will outlive all their faith, their ideas, their deeds, the very fact of their existence.

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6 years

Marriage is the best solution to the problem of being single. However, being single is not a problem. And it certainly doesn't need a solution.

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6 years

Would you rather take off or land?

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5 years

It can be dangerous to be correct among the ignorant.

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8 years

Terrorists are made, not born. The more the world learns what makes them, the better the world can keep them from being made.

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7 years

An intelligent person who supports Donald Trump is like a balloon who supports a needle. (Feel free to supply your own, better analogies.)

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8 years

The smartest people hide their intelligence so as not to offend the majority.

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6 years

No one knows everything, but a lot of people seem to believe they do.

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7 years

If having children were as difficult as raising children, there would be a lot fewer children to raise.

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6 years

Do you, in general, prefer the beginning of the journey or the end of the journey?

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6 years

Have you ever wished that you had never been born?

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7 years

The best thing to say when you don't understand something is, "I don't understand." (Not, "What are you talking about?" or, "Wrong!")

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7 years

It's never an insult to a book if you fall asleep while reading it. An insult to a book is your not ever opening it.

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6 years

People who believe what they want to believe are usually believing what someone else wants them to believe.

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5 years

The most deeply religious people most likely belong to no religion.

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6 years

Do you ever curse at yourself? If you do, is it aloud or silently?

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6 years

If an athlete is not willing to walk around in a shirt with your name on it, why would you walk around wearing a shirt with the athlete's name on it?

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7 years

To sleep, you have to stop thinking; to think, you have to stop sleeping.

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5 years

You are not what you spend. You are not what you earn. You are what you give.

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7 years

Agreeing with the majority will often prove you to be incorrect.

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5 years

When someone loves you, you shine. When you love someone, you glow.

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6 years

There are among us a great many cannibals who eat not the flesh but the spirit of others.

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6 years

Many people are armed with knowledge of things about which they know nothing.

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7 years

There is something about holding an open book in two hands that fills the entire body with delight.

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7 years

There are two kinds of liars. Those who tell the lies. And those who believe the lies.

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7 years

When someone loves you, you shine. When you love someone, you glow.

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6 years

In the end, parents and children teach one another equally.

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7 years

Marriages fail mostly because two people never learn how to talk--really talk--to each other.

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7 years

If you could live anywhere in the world, would you live where you live?

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7 years

“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded...." Who talks like this? Oh, of course, from his time in the military.

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8 years

Anxiety is the price we pay for being sensitive to the world.

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7 years

Just because you're unnoticed doesn't mean you're not notable.

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7 years

Ignorance is more than not knowing. Ignorance is not wanting to know.

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6 years

Preference: falling asleep or waking up?

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5 years

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”--Plato Open your eyes before darkness reigns.

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7 years

It's very hard to write a book. It's almost as hard to read books by people who may not have found it hard enough to write their books.

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7 years

Some people who ask your opinion expect to hear from you only their own opinion.

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7 years

You can lead a fool to the truth, but you can't make him recognize it.

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7 years

The way you talk about others is very much who you are.

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7 years

The fact that you don't go anywhere after you're dead should be all the more reason to go everywhere you can before you're dead.

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6 years

If you insist that all people should "make it on their own," should you not also insist that all people begin with the same (material) advantages?

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6 years

Let's get married Let's have fun Let's say, "You're the only one." Let's have children, Yessiree One like you One like me. Let's not argue Let's not fight Let's make every- Thing go right. Let's decide Here and now To make all that Our wedding vow. #LittleLovePoemjdl

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There will always be someone who loves the way you look. Passionately.

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7 years

Any religion that attempts to invalidate any other religion should be called not a religion but a hoax and a hustle.

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If you have a nickname, do you like it?

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6 years

If you listen only to those with whom you agree and who agree with you, you learn nothing.

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7 years

Do you often wish you were somewhere else?

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6 years

If you were able, would you like to hear what people say to one another about you?

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The most effective way to react to an insult is to pay no attention to whoever issued it.

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7 years

Ridicule of others is the weak person's way to pretend to be strong.

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5 years

Have you ever lived in a home with someone whose mood affected--usually in a negative, grim, angry, dissatisfied way--the entire household? And as long as that mood lasts, so does its effect on everyone else.

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Ridicule of others is a weak person's way to pretend to be strong.

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6 years

Sleep in peace. Rise in hope. (Neither is easy for too many among us.)

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8 years

If you really want to end the killing of "babies," you'll save a lot more babies if you never support or participate in any war. Not ever.

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8 years

Owning up to your failures is one of the highest forms of success.

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6 years

An angry man is called...well, an angry man. An angry woman is called...what?

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Our worst critic is usually found in a mirror.

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