My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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