How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ~Kim Alexis
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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