Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~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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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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