Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
#quotes #geraldine-brooks #books #past

Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab 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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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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