I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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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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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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