The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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