You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian 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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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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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
#quotes #geraldine-brooks #books #past

The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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