Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu 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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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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