Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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