In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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