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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosInstead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
#quotes #abraham-lincoln #silence
I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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I'm very independent. ~Kate Bosworth
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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