There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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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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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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