In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
#quotes #doris-lessing #world

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
#quotes #grace-slick #women

It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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