What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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