Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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