The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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