At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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