The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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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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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish 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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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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