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• You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

  George Dewey

  Fire, Navy, May

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899

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• We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

  Harry Chapin

  Moving, World, Moved

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• I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

  Drake

  Retirement, Looks, Bragging

  Song: The Language

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• Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

  David Eddings

  Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship

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• I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

  Roman Reigns

  Opportunity, Fire, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Eye, Giving

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• The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Flower, Trouble

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• We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

  David Mamet

  Government, Liberty, Principles

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

  Tom Arnold

  Football, Drug, Tests

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• To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Photography, Waiting, Able

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• Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Book, Reading, Available

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Rude, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

  Meister Eckhart

  Truth, Eternity, Thee

  "Meister Eckhart".

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• If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Giving, Want

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.17, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Adventure, Looks

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• Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
  I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
  Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

  Chuck D

  Hero, Hip Hop, Black

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

  Marissa Mayer

  Motivational, Strong Women, Successful

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Laughing, Deception

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• The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

  Frank Baron

  Success, Unique, Old Habits

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• How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

  James Madison

  Revenge, War, Ambition

  "Federalist No. 41. General View of the Powers Conferred by the Constitution" by James Madison, www.congress.gov.

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• Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

  Ronald Reagan

  Doctors, Wallets, Fats

  Reagan, Ronald (1984). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 198”, p.709, Best Books on

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• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

  Jean Genet

  Cheating, Adventure, Games

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