I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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