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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." »John Dewey
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"Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living." »Emad Hasan
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"We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us—it simply reveals what we are made of already." »Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 10
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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams
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"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee
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"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue." »Giuseppe Garibaldi
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty." »John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
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"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so." »Native American
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"Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill." »Carlyle
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"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine
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"A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other." »George Jean Nathan
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"Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get" »Batman
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"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." »Agnes de Mille
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"Who made the world I cannot tell 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed." »A. E. Housman
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." »H.L. Mencken
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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons" »Alfred E. Neuman, The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
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"*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it." »Confucius
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards" »Mark Twain
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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad." »George Bernard Shaw
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"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." »Niels Bohr
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." »Mark Twain
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"The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise." »Native American
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