A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese 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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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~Marc Ostrofsky
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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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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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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