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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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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The debate over same sex "marriage" has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. ~Elliott Abrams
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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