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• There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn’t do.

  Theodore Sturgeon

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• In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

  Cy Young

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• Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

  Miranda Lambert

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• Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

  Seth Lloyd

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• We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it’s not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.

  Dr David Jones

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• New terms used like, ‘overseas contingency operation’ instead of the word ‘war’ – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can’t spin our way out of this threat.

  Sarah Palin

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• New terms used like, ‘overseas contingency operation’ instead of the word ‘war’ – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can’t spin our way out of this threat.

  Sarah Palin

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• Instead of me having a breakdown, I’m focusing on me having a breakthrough.

  Terrell Owens

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• I’m very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

  Roy Blunt

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• I didn’t go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

  Witold Gombrowicz

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• I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who’s coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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• There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

  Rita Dove

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  Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

  Sasha Azevedo

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  If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, than there’d be peace.

  John Lennon

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

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• My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  Pablo Picasso

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• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

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• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

  Henry Ford

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• Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

  Robert Burns

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• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

  A. J. Liebling

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