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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
Steven Wright

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
Andre Agassi

Good, Find, Fighting

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne

Death, Involved, Mankind

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

God, Lie, Cannot

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

Money, Long, Lives

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
Robert Mugabe

Jesus, Once, Times

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Doubt, Thought

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins

Selfish, Try, Born

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.
Clint Eastwood

Life, Important, Through

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
Clint Eastwood

Time, Working, Keep

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken

Write, Moon, Lack

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo

Thought, Labor, Invisible

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce Meyer

Time, God, Feeling

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.
Eric Davis

Control, Give, Why

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele

Music, Someone, Done

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficult, Dare

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor

Mine, Admire, Adore

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino

Love, Truth, Hate

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
Ron Paul

War, Before, After

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.
Ron Paul

Happen, Somebody, Knows

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher

Walking, Critics, Swim

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

Work, Stuff, Communism

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Fear, Rock

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.
Kim Cattrall

Men, Same, Reason

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates

Life, Thinking, Understand

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Men, Death

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Beautiful, Simple

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.
Hillary Clinton

Happy, Made, Stand

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