Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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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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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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