Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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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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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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