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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

Not all treasure is silver

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
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Ovid

Ovid

Whether they give or refuse,

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the future, all religions

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the life of every

In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.
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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
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Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony

Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony

The ritual of marriage is

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
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Mike Pickett

Mike Pickett

Faith is the manifestation of

Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rays of happiness, like

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when unbroken.
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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
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Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treated

Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.
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Meylin D. Bojorge

Meylin D. Bojorge

You can't teach a blind

You can't teach a blind man to see but you can teach him how to feel just what you feel
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Longinus

Longinus

Love of money is the

Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.
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Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Some of the best advice

Some of the best advice I ever received was "Man, that was terrible".
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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

The aim of every artist

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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M Aurelius

M Aurelius

Consider, and you will find

Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.
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Daniel Perez

Daniel Perez

Finding nemo took two hours,

Finding nemo took two hours, finding love take two people
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We hold in our hands,

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
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Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts

Do not hover always on

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

In every height, man feels

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple, and

Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived.
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Robin Green

Robin Green

Repetition is the death of

Repetition is the death of art.
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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds:

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

I have often thought that

I have often thought that the cause of men?s good or ill fortune depends on whether they make their actions fit with the times. A man having prospered by one mode of acting can never be persuaded that it may be well for him to act differently, whence it is that a man?s Fortune varies, because she changes her times and he does not his ways.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

In every height, man feels

In every height, man feels low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! ~ (Mehmet Murat ildan)
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