Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
#quotes #anne-lamott #suffering #books

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
#quotes #woody-allen #death #fear

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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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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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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