What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that; maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. ~Elle Fanning
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian 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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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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