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I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston

Long, Succeed, Anyone

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep, Far, Company

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth

Nature, Heart, Betray

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce

Care, Account, Descent

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda Meir

Fight, Before, Place

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard

Success, Learning, Tomorrow

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
Louis L'Amour

Down, Sea, Seem

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

Age, Today, Philosophy

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'
LeBron James

Time, Today, Mother

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

Reading, Known, Hour

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong

Joke, Times, Face

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

Love, Marriage, Respect

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Robert E. Lee

Why, Drink, Whiskey

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden

Mean, Him, Cannot

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Ourselves, Harm

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles

Famous, Simple, Why

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Women, Men, Ability

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Alfred A. Montapert

Person, Free, Choice

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
William Shatner

Eyes, Big, Rest

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. Nixon

Great, Government, Today

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz

Today, Done, Big

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Made, Fall

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love, Friends, Won

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best, Done, Often

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

Learn, Far, Knew

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine

Able, Souls, Rational

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge

Nothing, Said, Harm

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
Harvey Fierstein

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
Harvey Fierstein

Trust, Anyone, Says

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen

Wonderful, Stop, Dear

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