I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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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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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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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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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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