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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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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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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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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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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
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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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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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proverbiosThink of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese 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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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