As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African 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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