I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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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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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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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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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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