I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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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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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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