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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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proverbiosThe man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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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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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
#quotes #john-ensign #50s #taxation #government #united-states
You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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I think "Voldemort" is definitely the scariest villain. ~Lauren Oliver
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
#quotes #elizabeth-edwards #family #children #parenting
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
#quotes #earl-lloyd #competition
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
#quotes #abraham-lincoln #silence
As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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