What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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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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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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