A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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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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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese 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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