Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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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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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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