Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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