Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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People love to hate other people. ~Kid Rock
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This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
#quotes #paul-mceuen #childhood

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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