In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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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 would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers, both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the "Harmony For Humanity" e-Stage. ~Russell Simmons
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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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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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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