Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
#quotes #natalia-vodianova #beauty #hardship #childhood

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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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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