"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch 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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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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