Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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