I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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