I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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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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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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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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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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