I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian 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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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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