Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese 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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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian 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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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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