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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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proverbiosA man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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