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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosThe past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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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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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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