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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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quotistThese days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
#quotes #martin-rees #time #human #change
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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