Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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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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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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