I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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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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