"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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