I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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