I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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