Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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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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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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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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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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