We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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