The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
#quotes #jan-karon #love #writing

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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