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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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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