Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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