As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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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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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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