I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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