I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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