They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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