Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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