She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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I'm very independent. ~Kate Bosworth
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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