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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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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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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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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