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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroys #difficult #enemy #extremely #great

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

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We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.' ↗

— Tim Johnson

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But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#besides #chick #fact #funny #i

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#destroys #me #nourishes

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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