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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Lloyd Banks

Loyalty, Important, Honor

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Away, Possible

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

Funny, Heart, Sting

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

Down, Thoughts, Whole

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

War, Feeling, Nothing

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley

Sex, Person, Found

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West

Good, Wonderful

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith

Father, Black, Friends

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, Dangerous, Risk

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Blessed, Makes

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

Good, True, Forget

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney

Hope, Lose, Started

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Long, Run

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs

Life, Great, Respect

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

Difficult, Loses, Occupied

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
Charlie Sheen

Success, Winning, Percent

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

Today, Loneliness, Young

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs

Life, Best, Successful

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer

Thinking, Worthy

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Funny, Best

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

Him, Hands, Among

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Children, Wonderful, Youth

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

True, Problem, Labeled

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel

Hope, Same, Sense

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West

Real, Lady, Imitation

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Power, Talent

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Off, Point

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