Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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