You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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