Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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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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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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