The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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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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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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