The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
#quotes #don-henley #wisdom

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
#quotes #truman-capote #people

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
#quotes #arthur-godfrey

Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
#quotes #tony-parsons #rod-stewart #dave-hill

A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
#quotes #tony-kaye #time #future

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
#quotes #robert-frost #democracy

If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
#quotes #neale-donald-walsch #mind

If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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