Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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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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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish 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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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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