Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~Hannah More
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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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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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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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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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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