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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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proverbiosIt is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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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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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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