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• We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Care, Reign

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Blessed, Soul

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

  Harry Blamires

  Thinking, Long, Soul

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• Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other.

  Kristen Ashley

  Grandmother, Two, Heaven

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.172, Rock Chick LLC

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• My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said

  Isobelle Carmody

  Brother, Responsibility, Order

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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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• It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

  Mark Twain

  Maxims

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

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• Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Children, Real, Way

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• The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

  Martin Amis

  Twists, Looks, Fluidity

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 19, 2011

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• One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

  Isaac Asimov

  Talking, Soul, Hats

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• But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Enough, Dare

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Breathing, Tasks

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• The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

  Alexander Herzen

  Night, Order, Long

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• If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

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• I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Devil, Doe, World

  Preface to "Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century". Printed by Shop Roycroft Printi, 1897.

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• The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Years, Religion

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• My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Sports, Husband

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• Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

  Marie Antoinette

  Failing, Moments, Ends

  "Marie Antoinette". Book by Jane Bingham, p. 39, 2008.

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• Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

  Miep Gies

  People, Looks, Scapegoat

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• The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Reason, Refuse, Meaningless

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• LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.

  Bow Wow

  Men, Rapper, Jail

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• We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.

  John Owen

  Concerned

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• In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

  Cher Lloyd

  Girl, School, Mean

  "17 Minutes With Cher Lloyd". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Once Upon A Time, Special

  "A little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll" by Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

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• The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Kids, Special, Way

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