Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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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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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
#quotes #maria-monk #christianity #power

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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