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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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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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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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ~Bill Budge
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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