Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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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 live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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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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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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