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• Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren't on the horizon, I don't think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thinking, Opposites, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Dec 04, 2016

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• Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Mean Girls, Bad Thoughts, Girl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Mind, Important

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 209, 1909.

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• I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Able, Pessimism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion: a Dialogue”, p.132, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

  David Sylvian

  Needs, Littles, Compromise

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• If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

  Michael O'Leary

  Wine, Two, Rose

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• I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Thinking, Hands

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• When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Gratitude, Giving, Thanks

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• Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

  Peter York

  People, Feelings, Pressure

  "The man and the marabou" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• When America doesn't act, bad things happen

  Dennis Prager

  America, Happens, Things Happen

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• The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

  Wayne Hale

  Aerodynamics, Lines, Normal

  "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

  Ajahn Chah

  Giving Up, Rain, Fall

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• When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen.

  Matt Smith

  Beautiful, Self, Focus

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• It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

  Jared Polis

  Good Things, Easier

  "What I've Learned: Representative Jared Polis (D, Colo.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Interesting, Attention

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• You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, People, Defense

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• I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

  Matthew Rhys

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Feelings, Trying, Athens

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• I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

  John Schlesinger

  Tongue, Has Beens, Cheeks

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• Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Happened, Happens

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• Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

  Alex Steffen

  Powerful, People, Cynical

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• What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Opportunity, Would Be, Looks

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• Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Asking Why, Missing, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Nov 25, 2012

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• All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

  Lon Chaney, Jr.

  Sympathy, Father, Character

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