The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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