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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Jimmy Buffett

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Enemy, Nothing, Soul

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
Jim Carrey

Money, Morning, Down

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel

Life, Hope, Human

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Denzel Washington

God, Mother, Another

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Power, Forward, Moving

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Live, Wish

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
Ernest Holmes

God, Others, Accept

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

Work, God, Talent

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Play, Difference, Hand

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso

Love, Soul, Knew

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

Courage, Coward, Despair

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Death, Story, Meaning

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Promises

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

Time, Odd, Spirits

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Science, Keep, Conscience

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Happy, Together, Old

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller

Faith, Fight, Battle

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

Religion, Freedom, Society

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Passion, Kiss, Affection

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman

Freedom, Democracy, Measure

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

Life, Love, Work

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Light, Lovely

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
George Whitefield

Poor, Makes, Himself

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne

Mind, Edge, Pains

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France

Life, Good, Courage

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France

Men, Mind, Thoughts

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

True, Himself, Claims

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

Important, Fashion, Worth

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Him, Same

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