Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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