Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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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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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish 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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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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