Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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