A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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