Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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