The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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