You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen 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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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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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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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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