[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin 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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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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