Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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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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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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