Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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