Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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