We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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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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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish 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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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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