I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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While we teach, we learn. ~Seneca
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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