In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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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
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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