No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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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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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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