I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. ~Freddy Adu
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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