“When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.”
— Sherri Shepherd
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Category: music
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“Our ideals are our better selves.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Category: inspirational
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“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
— Nelson Mandela
Author: Nelson Mandela
Category: leadership
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“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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Category: work
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“And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: war
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“My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.”
— Karl Philipp Moritz
Author: Karl Philipp Moritz
Category: morning
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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.”
— Richard Dawkins
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Category: time
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“Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.”
— Pranab Mukherjee
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Category: peace
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“Technology is teaching us to be human again.”
— Simon Mainwaring
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Category: technology
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“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
— Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Category: life
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“I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.”
— Nancy Grace
Author: Nancy Grace
Category: trust
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