If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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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
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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