If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~Hannah More
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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