Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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