Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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quotistSkill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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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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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosYou can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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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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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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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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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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