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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in t

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. – Clara Barton

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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton

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Id be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice Ive made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot. – Ethan Hawke

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Peter 3:15 – Bible

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There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. – Lois Chartrand

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. – William Law

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own. – Gerald Barzan

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Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! – Luigi Pirandello

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You know you’re a skydiver when you’ll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can’t seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00. – Author Unknown

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