Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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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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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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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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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~Bill Wyman
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