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

  Frank Sinatra

  Way, Seems, Unwelcome

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• If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Real, Thinking, Two

  Louise Fitzhugh (2010). “Sport”, p.140, Yearling

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• The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Boys

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• I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

  Glen Campbell

  Start The Day

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• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

  Jess Walter

  Block, Coffee, Writing

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• People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Strong, Believe, Water

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• Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Causes, Favour, Impressive

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• 'It was stupid, thinking it was him, I mean, I knew he was dead' Harry muttered. 'You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him....You know, Harry, in a way you did see your father last night....You found him inside yourself.'

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Life Lesson, Stupid

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• In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Issues, Choices

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• I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Complaining, Asking

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.15, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Failure, World, Christianity

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• Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

  Horace Silver

  People, Joy, Musical

  "Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2014.

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• You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

  Og Mandino

  Adversity, Seeds

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• When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

  Irving Stone

  Weed, Block, Writing

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• The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

  Placido Domingo

  Emotional, Voice, Worry

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• It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, People

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intriguing, Intellect, Complexity

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• Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Teach, Manhood

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.424

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Libertarian, Prosperity

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• In a world where the dead
  have returned to life, the
  word" trouble' loses much
  of its meaning.

  Dennis Hopper

  World, Loses

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• There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Needs, Care

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• When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

  Barack Obama

  America, Helping

  President Obama's news conference on the Affordable Care Act, www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2013.

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