Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting … - Joseph Heller

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How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

Joseph Heller

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Deserves, Give Me, Giving, Might, Straightened, Universe

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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Blasphemy, Honor, Inspirational, Sadism, Truth, Wisdom

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Boy, Children, Grow, Growing Up, Inspirational

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Civilization, Earth, Mean, Peace

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Accidental, Failure, Long, Run, Running, Worked

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Country, Daring, Exercise, Freedom, Rights

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Mario Puzo

Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

Girl, Pay, Sight, Stop, Thinking

John C. Maxwell

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Team, Feel Better, Firsts, Line, Ask, Delay

Alicia Keys

A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.

Beautiful, Chose, Good Friend, Powerful, Told

Franklin D. Roosevelt

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

Careers, Frenzied, Japanese, Loss, Men, Toll

Paul Claudel