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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken

Girl, Thought, Remember

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

Power, Morning, Reason

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

Change, Blame, Mad

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Play, Dark, Reason

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, Moral

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus

Nothing, Him, Risk

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus

Others, Call, Discover

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Johnny Depp

Life, Good, Pretty

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, Violence

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
William R. Alger

Good, Smile, Soul

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs

Computers, Happen, Able

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht

Happiness, Everyone, Heels

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Long, Short, Race

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Happiness, Making, Running

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather

Until, Creek, Crossed

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
Robert Mugabe

Together, Vote, Gun

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

True, Giving, Trying

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
Nelson Mandela

Mistakes, Long, Made

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams

Nothing, Happen, Moment

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

Before, Between, Whole

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Wrong, She

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Thinking, Others

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
Barack Obama

Best, Future, Done

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, Moral

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Happiness, Service, Wealth

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Good, Beautiful, Give

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck

Struggle, Person, Two

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

Nature, Mistakes, Understand

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis

Money, Game, Goal

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