There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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I gave up meat when I was twelve. One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
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Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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Whatever Josh allegedly did, I'm very shocked because Josh is a good kid. Since he's been with us, our relationship has been good. We didn't have any complaints from teachers or anything.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
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After enlightenment, the laundry.
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And then as it seems with a blink of an eye, My negative thoughts drift on by. It's taken but a moment to change a month of misery. And in that moment I remain, Inside myself the relief of pain. As the moment fades, my thoughts begin to quiver. A moment in time cannot live forever.
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand
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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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There are a lot of us that were on that 2003 team, so it's not like it's showing we know how to win. We've got to win games, we've got to score runs and we've got to pitch well. We need to get everybody back on track. It's nice to come back and score all these runs after the worst loss I've seen since I've been in Florida. It was nice.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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We've got to get him more work. He's another switch-hitter and a solid receiver. It wouldn't be the worst thing for Josh to play more.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
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Charlotte has a great history with NASCAR and a great nexus there with all the teams. We wish them well and look forward to being there at the opening.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
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I had a shirt when I was little, because I played so much basketball, that said, `When you're off, shoot until you're on.' You just keep fighting through it until you get back into the game.
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We had some guys who had been starting and batting in different spots in the order. Jack made a shuffle and put some guys in different places. I think the credit goes to them for taking it and being upbeat about it. Any time there are changes, it can be tough on people's psyche.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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When you compete and put that out there, it's going to breed some success.
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