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If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
Simply calling your credit card issuer and asking them to lower your interest rate may yield immediate savings.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.
I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.
I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don't want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
It's easy to make rude comments simply for the sake of being rude, but I'd much rather go a more psychological route.
You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.
There are certain transfers you simply don't do. This has a lot to do with respect: respect for tradition and the fans.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
What we do not need are career politicians that simply run for office to be somebody with a big title. We don't need that.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.