Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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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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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ~Kim Alexis
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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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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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