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And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing. — Donna Jo Napoli

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless. — Rickson Gracie

One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you. — Oprah Winfrey

I was having trouble with the scale of things. A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar killed impersonally, destroying dozens of men, while the musket was fired by one man who could see the eyes of the one he killed. That made it murder, it seemed to me, not war. How many men to make a war? Enough, perhaps, so they didn't really have to see each other? — Diana Gabaldon

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world's constant upsetting of man's equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it. — Alfred Stieglitz

The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies. — Tom Robbins

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. It was bound to happen eventually. — Darynda Jones

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring. — Adam Lambert

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred. — Henry De Montherlant

I love to show off my ability in a nice way. — Yani Tseng

I hope that you enjoy reading my dreams in as much as I had in dreaming them. — G.R. Holton

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing. — Vandana Shiva

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ. — Samuel Rutherford