If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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I held hands with her all the time; that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. ~J. D. Salinger
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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