Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. ~Paula Creamer
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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