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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosA lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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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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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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