Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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