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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

Marriage, Wife, Truths

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall

Great, God, Blessing

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand

Waiting, Yourself, Here

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

Show, Gave, Answer

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Beautiful, Nothing

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence, Genius, Inspires

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

May, Silent, Hear

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins

Life, Give, Gift

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur

God, Judge, Struggle

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Road, Turn

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Free, Leave, Books

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance, Offensive, Merit

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Why, Reason

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find, Shall, Seek

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Short, Times

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Idea

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Love, Truth, Friends

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

Prayer, Lord, Rest

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg

Single, Person, Different

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Strong, Quality

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Ideas, Premature

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Khalil Gibran

Soul, Between, Dream

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Through, Window

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence, Rights, Gift

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Happen, Both, House

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Time, Death

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

Nature, Moral, Against

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney

End, Remember, Lives

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