We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
#proverbs #exaggeration

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
#quotes #robert-tisserand #aromatherapy

A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
#quotes #robert-smith #achievement

Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
#quotes #richard-owen #nature #charles-darwin

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
#quotes #harvey-mackay #disappointment #hardship

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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