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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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proverbiosThere is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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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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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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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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