When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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