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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
#quotes #richard-owen #nature #charles-darwin
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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proverbiosGo ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
#quotes #valerie-simpson #entertainment #black
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
#quotes #ken-follett #james-bond #eating
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
#quotes #tom-robbins #critic #writing
Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
#quotes #emily-bronte #morality #hardship
I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
#quotes #nicholas-haslam #people #curiosity
No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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