Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
#proverbs #eating

One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
#quotes #isabel-allende #life #society #war

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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