The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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