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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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proverbiosWhen I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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