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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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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbiosIt had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ~Kim Alexis
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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