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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

Written, Remain, Laws

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem

Music, Long, Working

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Time, Children, Stupidity

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

Freedom, Government, Long

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia

Play, Against, Wind

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Write, Sit

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.
Charlie Sheen

Saying, Said, Far

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.
Eminem

Thoughts, Whole, Write

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.
Eminem

Put, Honestly, Mic

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

Ego, Close, Position

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Writing, Free, Playing

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Judge, Focus

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

Life, Love, Hope

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Government, May, Free

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Play, Soon, Tennis

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix

Die, High, Freak

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

Find, Enough, Write

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, True, Give

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur

Music, Him, Around

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

Older, Ask, Sit

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Else, Nation

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Richard M. Nixon

Give, Find, Sun

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

Friend, Weather, Calm

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

While, Left, Trees

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
Mitch Hedberg

Cause, Wear, Upside

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Job, Voting

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

Business, Anger, Cry

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, Late, Soon

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Few, Moments

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain

Life, Trust, Emotional

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