There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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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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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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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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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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