I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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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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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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