The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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