Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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