Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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