Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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