I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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