The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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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 don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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