Yeah, but just being alive doesn't mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important. ― Genki Kawamura

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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything. -Donald Trump

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Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. -- Rebecca Solnit

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Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

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To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive. - William Zinsser

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If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse. — Ryan Blair

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.― Jane Austen

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! ― George Bernard Shaw

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ― Howard Thurman

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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

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