It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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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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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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