Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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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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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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