If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
#quotes #don-zimmer #make-up

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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