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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
When we make college more affordable,
we make the American dream more achievable.
- William J. Clinton
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You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think,
and that's the time when they most need to think.
- William J. Clinton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America
that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
Let me say this as clearly as I can:
No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt,
there is no justification for killing innocents.
- William J. Clinton
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web...
Now even my cat has its own page.
- William J. Clinton
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most...
I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
- William J. Clinton
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement
the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser,
and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
- John Lennon
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,
separated from everything ... And they're not.
They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- the movie Powder
I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world
without having an effect on the rest of it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
That government is the strongest
of which every man feels himself a part.
- Thomas Jefferson
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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