In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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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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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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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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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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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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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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