My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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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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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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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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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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