I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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