When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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