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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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proverbiosSmall children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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