Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that; maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. ~Elle Fanning
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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