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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce
Christopher Everyone Honored Posterity He Columbus Knows Because Discover America Last
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy. Maeve Binchy
Life Life Is Too Short Enemy Win Think Too Would Rather Remain Disagreements Always Friends Than Short Prefer Apologize Even Believed Right Rows
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces. Sidney Sheldon
Day Every Day World Better Police Heroes Every Our Those Our World Members Risk Better Place Firefighters Armed Armed Forces Protect Make Forces Place Who Lives
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective. Siri Hustvedt
Truth World Perspective Single Our Way See Objective Objective Truth Limited Does Person Different Unifying Each Different Way
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Walter Scott
Build Melt Out Statues See Weep Snow Them
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Attitude Our Lies Towards Them Meaning Meaning Of Themselves Things
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel
Life You World Changing Changing The World Once Must Protect Bring
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway
Happiness Good Day People Spring Few Only Except Could Spoil Always Were Itself Very The Only Thing Thing
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka
Revolution Every Slime Only New Leaves Bureaucracy Behind Evaporates
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London
Life Good Sometimes Matter Holding Well Hand Poor Cards Playing
Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. Khaled Hosseini
Life Faith You Patience Perseverance School Discipline Weather Addiction Definite Sight Crises Willingness Ability Plus Fact Through Self-Confidence Caffeine Qualities Accept Exhaustion End Optimism Get Forgo Residency Medical Medical School Need Sleep
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Think Alive Would Longer Accept Vulnerability Vulnerable Were Up Children Used Grow Grow Up Grown-Up
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. Sidney Sheldon
Environmental You Better Try Earth Better Place Leave Arrived Than Place
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. Elie Wiesel
War Disappointment Experience Nothing Believe Changed Those Tried About Given Through Write Message Became Greatest Us Who
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway
Good You Feel Good Bad Moral Immoral About Morals Only Feel Know After
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Franz Kafka
Whatever Something Does Nonexistent Still Passionately Exist Create Believing Sufficiently Desired
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. Gore Vidal
People Seen Country States Since Them United United States Founded Brightest
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. Ivan Turgenev
Sit Stars Reach Reach For The Stars Mud
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien
You World Out About Fence Forever Cannot Wide Wide World
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac
Life Life Is A Stars Eye Wink Maybe
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin
Education Become Society Paradox Examine He Educated Begins Precisely Being Which Conscious
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! John Irving
You Memory Will Own Think Monster Hides Simply Forget Them Your Files Away Recall Keeps Things
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy
Life Food Man Animal Animals Healthy Live Eats Animal Life He Taking Merely Without Sake His Meat Therefore Appetite
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. Paulo Coelho
Universe Dream Conspires Something His Person Realize Really Help Desires
No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me. Paulo Coelho
Me Angel Saw Never Feel Around Irrelevant Whether Presence
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. Paulo Coelho
Heart Suffering Fear Worse Tell Dream Itself Than Goes Your Search Suffered Ever
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