"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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