In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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