If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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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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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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