Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
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