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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Made, Dream

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Person, Honest, Screwed

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

High, Head, Hold

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

Smile, Everything, Curve

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Heart, Brain, Through

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide

Path, Except, Anywhere

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

Government, Dad, Brother

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, Everything, Become

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Thought, Makes

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sometimes, Tell

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
Marilyn Monroe

Sleep, Days, Eat

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields

Trust, Water, Stick

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda

God, Different, Sea

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

Down, While, Left

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
Ayn Rand

Afraid, Looking, Road

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael Jackson

Simple, Children, Everyone

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Die, Said

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater

Fight, Country, Die

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Billy Graham

Life, Money, Attitude

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Path, Cannot, Won

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.
Lil Wayne

Life, Live, Lives

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!
Mitt Romney

Talk, Correct, Prefer

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French

Love, Power, Yourself

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.
Justin Bieber

Crazy, Done, Night

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley

Success, Change, Failure

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
Scott Caan

Good, Happen, Priorities

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater

Able, Military, Shoot

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri

Life, Lost, Dark

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams

Heart, Human, Through

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