"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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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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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ~Estelle
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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