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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
Life
Jealousy
Thoughts
You
Reality
Hate
Vision
Wake Up
Mind
Signs
Big
Live
Complicate
Mischief
Ruts
Through
Put
Road
Wake
Lots
Up
Bury
Flee
Your
Riding
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine
Property
World
Would
Law-Abiding
Invader
Horrid
Mischief
Well
Arms
Discourage
Were
Order
Them
Deprived
Use
Keep
Awe
Preserve
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
Frederick Douglass
Beginning
Nothing
Everybody
Mischief
Shall
Had
Learned
Answer
Doing
Question
Ask
Us
Asked
Your
Played
Early
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson
Power
Control
Benefit
Corporations
Paper
Paper Currency
Able
Mischief
Exclusive
Employed
Altogether
Springs
Privileges
Currency
Which
Interest
Derives
Multitude
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon
Great
Wife
Virtue
Enterprises
Hath
Given
Impediment
Mischief
Hostages
He
Children
Either
Fortune
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
Gore Vidal
Government
Made
Military
Other
Other Countries
Strikes
Unprovoked
No Idea
More
Mischief
Idea
Countries
Since
Than
American
Against
Extent
Number
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Good
Natural
Evil
Parents
Advice
Young
Ought
Our
Say
Would
Give
Rather
Mischief
Allow
Unto
Mix
Were
Very
Than
Children
Much
Whom
Careful
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises
History
State
Mischief
Main
Main Source
Disaster
Course
Been
Source
Often
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Tom Robbins
Freedom
People
Some
Taboos
Mischief
Gives
Sort
Stir
End
Up
Want
Break
In The End
Create
Really
Function
Things
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Life
Old
Poverty
Young
Aid
Other
Those
Out
Weakness
Mischief
Misfortunes
Noble
True
Noble Deeds
Prime
True Friends
Comfort
Sure
Friends
Refuge
Deeds
Incite
Keep
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Has-Been
Dreary
Parent
Mischief
Attempt
True
Merely
Said
Idleness
Been
Itself
Very
Escape
Which
Vacuum
I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians - they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.
Adrian Younge
Me
Musicians
Too Much
Too
Musical
Rap
Follow
Mischief
Could
Know
Instruments
Because
Souls
How
Go
Lot
Get
Movement
Anywhere
Produce
Much
Play
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
Aeschylus
Man
Woman
Advice
Doors
Give
Mischief
Outside
Concern
Within
Exists
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.
Beatrice Wood
Life
Love
God
You
Sex
Made
Power
Whatever
About
Entirely
Mischief
Point
Point Of View
Had
Masculine
Know
Make
Makes
Feminine
Just
Different
Them
View
Things
Two
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Bruce Jay Friedman
Women
World
Behavior
Wife
Honor
Too
Approach
Unless
Girlfriend
Mischief
Never
Attractive
She
Sort
Goal
Friend
Just
Dishonorable
Justify
Really
Your
Many
Code
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.
Christopher Lloyd
Me
Humor
Uncle
Way
Intrigued
Kind
See
About
Mischief
He
Sort
Always
Wacky
His
Fester
Just
Anything
Full
Certainly
Fun
Ridiculous
Enjoyed
Twisted
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon
Heart
Every
Resolve
Mischief
Had
He
Head
Execute
Hand
Contrive
Deed
There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.
Evgeny Morozov
Enemies
Internet
Drive
Doubt
Tools
Easier
Out
Fraud
No Doubt
Someone
Having
Mischief
Wipe
Never
Cheap
Identity
Accessible
Been
Account
Bank
Committing
Bank Account
Your
Hard
Electronic
Widely
The Ku Klux Klan, for some of us, is a constant - has a constant existence. It isn't until it touches certain aspects of white America that white America all of the sudden wakes up to the fact that there is something called the Klan and that it does its mischief.
Harry Belafonte
White
Constant
Some
Something
Mischief
Fact
Klan
Until
Does
Existence
Wakes
Up
America
Us
Certain
Aspects
Sudden
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
Nothing
Mischief
Doing
Children
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
Satan
Finds
Some
Mischief
Always
Idle
Still
Hands
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Jasper Fforde
Work
Mischief
Principle
Error
Very
Anything
Mankind
Much
Created
Inception
Hardwired
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
Julian McMahon
Life
Me
Father
My Life
Big
Young
Meeting
Minister
Folks
Pretty
Struck
Mischief
Never
Allowed
Part
Prime
Prime Minister
Sort
Foreign
Odd
Were
Lot
Get
Big Part
Anything
Really
Away
Thing
When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive.
Lecrae
Life
Me
World
Tough
Uncle
Party
Become
Aggressive
Gangsta
Saw
Hung
Out
Magnet
Mischief
Through
He
Since
Talkative
Got
Real
Loud
Wanted
Lens
Fun
Chris
Things
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
Malcolm Gladwell
You
Sports
Nothing
About
Mischief
Write
Allowed
Stake
Engage
The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.
Marcia Clark
You
Job
Tough
Minute
Mischief
Allowed
Step
Feminine
Where
Happens
Assertive
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