The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~Dennis Haysbert
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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