The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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