Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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