A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
#quotes #petrarch #writing #thinking #death

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
#quotes #sheryl-sandberg #success #men #women

Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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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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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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