The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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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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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch #music

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
#quotes #katherine-jenkins #mistakes #music

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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