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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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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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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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proverbiosI was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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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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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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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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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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