A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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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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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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