This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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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 man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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