I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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