A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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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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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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