Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The support in Britain made a big difference. ~Louise Woodward
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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