If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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