He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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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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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. ~Paula Creamer
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
#quotes #ben-jonson #reality

People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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