Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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