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• The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

  Bum Phillips

  Sports, Assumption, Turds

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• The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

  Charles de Lint

  Girl, Hands, League

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• With a vegan diet you always have energy, so much that sometimes I have trouble sleeping at night. You feel light. You don't feel bulky or heavy. This would benefit any athlete in any sport.

  Timothy Bradley

  Sports, Athlete, Sleep

  "Timothy Bradley Explains His Vegan Diet, The Benefits". www.boxingscene.com. September 30, 2013.

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• It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Pain, Real, Winning

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• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

  Steve McConnell

  Dirty, Long, Forgotten

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• They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

  William Ralph Inge

  Perspective, Live For Others, Seems

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• If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

  Claire Weekes

  Education, Wall, Thinking

  "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

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• I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Christian, Prayer

  Dwight L Moody (1998). “God's Abundant Grace”, p.56, Moody Publishers

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• There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Happiness

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• Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Math, Names

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.224, Mark Twain

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• There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Men, High Heels, Bars

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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• Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Benefits, Honey, Gains

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2009). “The Essential Writings of Machiavelli”, p.456, Modern Library

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• The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Business, Art Is

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• I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Problem, Bragging, Courses

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.71, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

  Robert Breault

  Leaving, Way, Always Leaving

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• Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Heart, Anxiety, Soul

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• The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Conservative, Greedy, Damn

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Religion, Obscure

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

  Freeman Dyson

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb". Documentary film, 1981.

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• Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

  Frank Sinatra

  Way, Seems, Unwelcome

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