As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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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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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-poverbs #wisdom #motivation

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
#quotes #doris-lessing #world

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
#quotes #david-lloyd #art #hope #reality

The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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