With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
#quotes #nikola-tesla #nuclear

"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
#quotes #frank-black #music #rules

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. ~Rob Bell
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
#quotes #melanie-griffith #education #internet #knowledge

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
#quotes #charles-de-secondat #wisdom #success

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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