Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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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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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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