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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck

Life, God, Hope

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

Life, God, Give

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

Greatest, Father, Person

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur

Good, Trying, Dirty

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Life, Art, Children

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Before, Here

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. Lewis

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Time, God

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Bible, Hours, Nightmares

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Great, Give

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Life, Success, Realize

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

Show, Answer, Sixties

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Michael Jordan

God, Respect, Before

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
William Arthur Ward

God, Today, Used

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
Rodney Dangerfield

Time, Last, Drink

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Change, Live

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Ralph Marston

Life, Someone, Blessings

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama

Business, Successful, Help

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Ron Paul

Good, Year, Tax

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
Mitt Romney

Morning, Mom, Dad

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp

Life, May, Done

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan

Life, History, Death

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
Mitt Romney

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
Mitt Romney

Help, America, Wish

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie

Wish, Three, Actually

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver

Good, Waiting, Him

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach

Life, Person, Become

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
Clint Eastwood

Him, Down, Made

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