A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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