Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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