Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
#quotes #dan-jenkins #sports

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
#quotes #john-c-reilly #love #tired

The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
#quotes #michael-light #thinking

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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