I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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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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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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