When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
#quotes #h-p-lovecraft #earth #life #pessimism

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
#quotes #robert-quillen #ignorance

The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #youth