Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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