A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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