We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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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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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi 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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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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