Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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