I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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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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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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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
#quotes #bill-laswell #music

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
#quotes #rose-george #freedom #caste #india

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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