I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm very independent. ~Kate Bosworth
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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