Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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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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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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