The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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