It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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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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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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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 had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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