The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ~Bill Budge
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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