I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
#quotes #barbara-cartland #women

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
#quotes #h-g-wells #wish #hardship

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
#quotes #charles-caleb-colton #saints #hypocrisy

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
#quotes #stephen-graham