1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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