Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ~Guy Lafleur
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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