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"A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go." »Andrew Schneider
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish." »Thai Proverb
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." »Bill Hoest
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." »Warren Buffett
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"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked." »Warren Buffett
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"A rising tide lifts all boats." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." »Harriet
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"My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back." »Fred Allen
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"The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide." »Jeff Melvoin
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"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature." »William Rotsler
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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"Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy." »William Shakespeare
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"Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy." »William Shakespeare
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
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"Reason should direct and appetite obey." »Cicero
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"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." »Bertha Calloway
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." »John Galsworthy
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity." »Plutarch
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity." »Marcel Proust
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." »Harriet
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us." »President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio
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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." »John Wooden
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"The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it." »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." »William Arthur Ward
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