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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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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