As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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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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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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