Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese 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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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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