If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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