When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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