When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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