Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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