Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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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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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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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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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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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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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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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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