The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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