There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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