The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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