How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Rose is famous for grace, advocate is famous for case, horse is famous for race. But you are famous for sweetness on your face.
#message #cute

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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