The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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