Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian 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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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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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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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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