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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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proverbiosThis arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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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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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
#quotes #thomas-sowell #nuclear #bombing #terrorism
A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust
Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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