A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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I am a big horror fan. I am a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make. ~Amber Heard
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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