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• For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Attitude, Victory

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.156, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, College, Events

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• To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

  Bob Wise

  College, Needs, Gains

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• We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

  Famke Janssen

  Men, Superhero, Female

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. —

  Karch Kiraly

  Volleyball, Athlete, Play

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• Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

  Greg Maddux

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Play, Backyards

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

  Shirley Hazzard

  Love, Thinking, Wish

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Wings

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Education, Science, Ideas

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• Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

  Henry Harland

  Life, Grace, Minors

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• Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Art, Mean, Hands

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• I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Eye, Order

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• Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Liberty, Generations, Next

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• I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Should Have, Liberty

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.

  Mike Matheny

  Life, Motivational, Baseball

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• No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on experiment but the experimenter knows the many little things that could have gone wrong in the experiment.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  "The Art of Scientific Investigation".

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• In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, May

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Integrity, Home, Listening

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• A woman always has her revenge ready.

  Moliere

  Revenge, Women

  "Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, Act II, sc. ii, 1664.

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• He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Sight, Ugly

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• Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Athlete, Moments

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• When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Mean, Accepting

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• Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you. The state of mind that most needs enlightenment is the one that sees human beings as needing to be guided or enlightened. The sin that most needs to be loved and forgiven is the state of mind that sees human beings as sinners.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Safety, Mind

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.104, Gibbs Smith

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• If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

  Mark Gonzales

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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