It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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