Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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