A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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