What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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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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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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