I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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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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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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