The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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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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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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