Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek 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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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right. ~Melody Beattie
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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