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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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The support in Britain made a big difference. ~Louise Woodward
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosA little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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