To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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