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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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