Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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