Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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