The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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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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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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