If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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