Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish 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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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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