Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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