Insightful proverbs

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◆ History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

- Alexis de Tocqueville98

◆ At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he'd ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else.

- Victoria Forester98

◆ Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.

- Shaun Morgan98

◆ ...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

- Steve Martin98

◆ Leave your excuses and live your dreams!

- Paul F. Davis98

◆ Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

- Lil Wayne98

◆ Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

- Meghan Ciana Doidge98

◆ Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

- Jess C. Scott98

◆ Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

- Carl Sagan98

◆ Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

- Matt Simpson98

◆ I have an iron deficiency. You can tell by how wrinkled my clothes are.?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow porcession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it. In his head, he could roam anywhere, and he found that his mind was quick and clear, his imagination unfettered and supple. He could stay with a thought for hours, turning it about.

- Laura Hillenbrand98

◆ In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

- Suzanne Collins98

◆ The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

- Claude Levi Straus98

◆ The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

- Sean Carroll98