The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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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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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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