Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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