The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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