A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. ~Bill Rancic
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
#quotes #john-corey-whaley #family

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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