I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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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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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
#quotes #paul-ryan #barack-obama #politics

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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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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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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