Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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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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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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