When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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