If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. ~Paula Creamer
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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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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