Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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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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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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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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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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