The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~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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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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