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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Mother

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.
Bob Marley

Through, Before, Here

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning, Live, Thought

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Best, Experience

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

America, After, Perhaps

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Great, Men, Loved

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, History, Die

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Doubt, Speaking

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

Long, After, Chance

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Waiting, Around

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, Whose, Plant

I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought, Thoughts, Try

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Time, War

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy

Battle, America, Fighting

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

Poor, Shame, Ashamed

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Future, Series

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali

Fight, Win, Pleasure

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality, Christian, Word

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
Ronald Reagan

Important, Violence, Export

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

Lost, Again, Found

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

Bad, Saying, Find

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey Hepburn

Nothing, Give, Question

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Audrey Hepburn

Often, Lucky, Along

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Khalil Gibran

Time, Face, Changed

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

Nothing, Country, Started

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Anger, Him, Before

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Strong, Show

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