The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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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 I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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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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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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