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Births

• 1692 - Joseph Butler
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Deaths

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• I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Things, Pretty, Rather, Really, Instead, Just
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  Do not follow where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Leave, Instead, Path
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  Sometimes the things we can’t change, end up changing us instead.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Instead
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  Some people are selfish… They cheat, they stab, and will try to bring you down. Never let them get you down. Instead use them as steps to reach your Aim!

  Venkat Desireddy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Down, Instead

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Article, Instead, Audience

• It’s nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  Frank Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indians, Manager, Instead

• Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I’d appreciate it.

  Barbara Boxer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instead

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

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instead

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble, Instead

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

  Miranda Lambert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instead, Musician

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instead, Member

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sand, Instead

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contingency, Instead

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contingency, Instead

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

  Terrell Owens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instead, Focusing

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

  Roy Blunt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inclined, Instead

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

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Instead, Lectures

• 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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  Tags in Like, Political, Place, Loving, Find, Would, Instead

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

  Rita Dove

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Times, Complaints, Instead
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  Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happen, Instead