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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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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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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~Hannah More
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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randomA man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbiosThe debate over same sex "marriage" has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. ~Elliott Abrams
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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