Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish 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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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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