2024-01-04
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"We must be over the rainbow!"

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"The truth is: I'm an ordinary man"

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"Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."

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"I done had enough bad luck to keep me laughin' the rest of my life."

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"…These walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live."

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"I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that."

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"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too."

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"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion."

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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

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"I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life."

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"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'. Bless you all."

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"Every man dies, but not every man really lives."

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"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to."

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"Alone: bad. Friend: good!"

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"For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it – it's marvelous!"

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"It appears to me it's been planned a fellow's got to have his roots in something outside his own self."

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"Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life."

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"Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself."

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"Forgiveness is greater and love more powerful than hatred."

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"I can't tell you any sure way to happiness. I only know that you've got to go out and find it for yourselves."

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"As long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves."

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

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"I've got a million different kinds of feelings left in me and I want to use them. I want to use them all."

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"Every man has to build his own monument. You can't do it for them. If you do, it becomes your monument, not theirs."

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"There's always something left to love."

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