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“You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...”
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“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
Source : Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam
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“And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”
Source : "Dick Durbin: Banks “Frankly Own The Place”". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2009. 
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“Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.”
Source : "A New Life, Album for Lisa Marie Presley". www.elle.com. April 25, 2012.
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“I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.”
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“The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.”
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“Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet nestled in the provident silence of space. The ethical question is whether this is contributing to authentic human development and helping individuals and peoples to be true to their transcendent destiny.”
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“I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.”
