Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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