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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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proverbiosI don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ~Ronald Steel
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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