As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American 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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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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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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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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