Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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