I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese 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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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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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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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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