Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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