Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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