But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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