If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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