If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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