You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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