Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
#quotes #stephen-king

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
#quotes #john-barrasso #government

He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #music #solitude

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
#quotes #lou-brock #freedom #stealing

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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