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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus Aurelius

Impossible, Difficult, Anyone

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts

Faith, Trust, Yourself

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns

Hope, Depression, Loved

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Long, Feeling

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings

Love, Hard, Humanity

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

Nothing, Mistake, Nobody

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra

Tired, Wish, Question

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art, Motivation, Getting

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Fight, Played

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

Sacrifice, Team, Champion

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.
Mitch Hedberg

Time, Good, Why

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John Wooden

Friendship, Marriage, Nice

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'Rourke

Parents, May, Difficult

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs

Why, Church, Ridiculous

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson

Human, Tell, Dogs

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

Pretend, Careful

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown

Life, Down, Try

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
Johnny Depp

Life, Money, Normal

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

Love, Snow, Important

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Children, Learned

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

Money, Passion, Hard

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates

Fear, Reverence, Everywhere

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby

Love, Luck, Authority

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
Will Smith

Old, Often, Used

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

Children, After, Sick

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Death, Law, Trying

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan

Stand, Driven, Breathing

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack Obama

Family, Single, Same

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

Great, Passion, Dancers

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