If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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