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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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quotistSmoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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