You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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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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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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