If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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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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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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