A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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