A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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