I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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