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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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quotistIf I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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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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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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