What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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