God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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