May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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