Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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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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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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