I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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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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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
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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