The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French 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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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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