I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love zoo sanctuaries. ~Nancy Travis
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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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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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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