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People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.
-Pearl Bailey
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Ambition
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Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
-Pearl Bailey, Talking to Myself (1971)
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Change
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
-Pearl Bailey
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Choice
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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
-Pearl Bailey
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Corruption
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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Identity
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You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.
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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
-Pearl Bailey
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Listening
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
-Pearl Bailey, Talking to Myself
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Love
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
-Pearl Bailey
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
-Pearl Bailey
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Past, the
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.
-Pearl Bailey
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Talent
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
-Pearl Bailey
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Truth
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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Worth
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Books by and about Pearl Bailey