Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
#quotes #maya-angelou #smoking #music

Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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