We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~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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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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