I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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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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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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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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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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