One Liners (the r - thi)
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| The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time.
But also to leave the wrong thing unsaid at the most tempting moment.
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| The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (Bernard Meltzer)
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| The real problem concerning your leisure is how to keep other people from using it.
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| There are 10 types of people in the country, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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| There are 2 fools in every market: one asks too little, one asks too much. (Russian proverb)
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There are 4 Santa Claus stages:
1) When you believe in Santa.
2) When you don't believe in Santa.
3) When you are Santa.
4) When you look like Santa.
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| There are 400 hundred words in the dictionary that begin with "self" and only 8 that begin with "fellow".
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| There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. (Robert Orben)
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There are four types of people in this world.
There are people that make things happen.
There are people that watch things happen.
There are people that wonder what happened.
And there are people that don't know anything happened.
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| There are no hopeless situations -- only people who are hopeless about them. (Dinah Shore)
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| There are no passengers on spaceship Earth- we are all the crew.
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| There are no strangers in this world, just friends we've never met.
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| There are no substitutes for fresh air, sunshine and exercise.
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| There are only two kinds of people in the world - there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord," and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning."
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There are some days I practice positive thinking.
And other days I'm not positive, I am thinking.
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| There are three billion women who don't look like super models and ONLY eight who do.
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| There are three dimensions to credit cards, length, width and debt.
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| There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
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There are three secrets to success:
The first is "Keep your eyes and ears open."
The second is "Don't tell everything you know."
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| There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth.
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| There are three things extremely hard; steel, a diamond and to know ones self.
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| There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself; hire someone; or forbid your kids to do it.
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| There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is guaranteed, but you have no influence over the first two.
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| There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering, and even more difficult.
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There are too many mediocre things to deal with.
Love shouldn't be one of them.
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| There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them.
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| There are two kinds of people, those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
(Indira Gandhi)
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There are two theories about arguing with women.
Neither one works.
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There are two types of pain in this life;
that of discipline, which lasts a short while...
and that of regret, which can last a life time.
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| There are two types of people in this world: those who leave a mark, and others who just leave a stain.
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| There are two types of people who can tell you the truth about yourself: an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
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| There are two ways to be contented: one is liking what you do, and the other is doing what you like.
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There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
(Albert Einstein)
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| The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is because they have a common "enemy".
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| The reason why people do not obtain success is because it is disguised as hard work.
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| There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
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| There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full.
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| There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. (Ashley Brilliant)
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| There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.
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| There is a certain freedom in having nothing left to lose.
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There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
Ignorance can be cured by learning and reading.
Stupidity isn't willing to be cured.
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| There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path! (Morpheous)
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| There is a light at the end of every tunnel, just pray it's not a train.
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| There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.(E.C. McKenzie)
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| There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
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| There is an "exception to every rule" - and most people think they are it.
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There is a pill for every ill,
and a bill for every pill.
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| There is a technical meteorological term for a sunny, warm day which follows two rainy days. It's called a "Monday."
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| There is never a right way to do the wrong thing.
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| There is no future in spending the present worrying about the past.
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| There is no future in time travel.
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| There is no "I" in team, but there is a "ME".
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| There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French proverb)
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| There is no such thing as a hole on your side of the canoe. (native Indian saying)
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| There is no such thing as a 'self-made' person. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. (George Matthew Adams)
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| There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money. (William Weld)
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| There is nothing as strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph W. Sockman)
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| There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
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| There is nothing wrong in having nothing to say, unless you insist on saying it.
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| There is nothing wrong with people possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess people. ( Billy Graham)
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| There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. (Robert Alden)
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| There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to
be true to the best we know. (Frederick Farrar)
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| There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. (Archibald McLeish)
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| There is only one thing that feels better than to be loved... to love! (Derek Prince in 'Caring for widows and orphans')
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| There is some consolation in the fact that even if your dreams haven't come true- neither have your nightmares.
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| There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it doesn't behoove any of us to talk about the rest of us.
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| There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still out there in your pockets."
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| There is truth in humor, but not humor in truth.
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| There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Elie Wiesel)
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| There was a break at the prison yesterday. An ex-fortune teller, described
as being short with dark hair, broke out of prison. The public is advised
to be on the lookout for a small medium at large.
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There was a guy telling his friend that he and his wife had a serious argument the night before. "But it ended," he said, "when she came crawling to me on her hands and knees."
"What did she say?" asked the friend. The husband replied, "She said, 'Come out from under that bed, you coward!'"
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There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"
He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
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There was this lady who was visiting a church one Sunday. The sermon seemed to go on forever, and many in the congregation fell asleep.
After the service, to be social, she walked up to a very sleepy looking gentleman, extended her hand in greeting, and said, "Hello, I'm Gladys Dunn."
And the gentleman replied, "You're not the only one ma'am, I'm glad it's done too!!"
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"There you go, tracking mud all over the house. Didn't I tell you to wipe your feet before you came in!"
"Oh, nobody's blaming you, Mom. You did all you could."
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| The richest person in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar they ever earned. It's the person who still has their first friend. (Martha Mason 1864 - 1949)
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| The rich invest; the smart investigate.
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| The road to a friends house is never long. (Swedish proverb)
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| The road to success is always under construction.
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| The safest way to cross life's streets is to hold hands.
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| The same sun that melts butter hardens clay. (Donald Meyer)
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| The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. (Jagad Guru)
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| The secret of happiness is to admire without desire.
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| The secret of true greatness is simplicity.
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| The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Albert Einstein)
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| The ship is safer in the harbour, but it is not meant for that.
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The shortest books:
1) A guide to arab democracies
2) Everything men know about women
3) The Amish phonebook
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| The silence of one man can be louder than the screaming of 10 boys!
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| The small print takes away what the big print grants!
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| The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
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| The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
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| The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease..sometimes it gets replaced.
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The story is told of a farmer who was known for his generous giving, and whose friends could not understand how he could give so much and yet remain so prosperous.
One day a friend said: "We can't understand it. You give far more than any of the rest of us, and yet you always seem to have more to give."
"That's easy to explain," the farmer said. "I keep shoveling into God's bin, and God keeps shoveling back into mine, and God has the bigger shovel."
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| The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. (Confucius)
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| The sum of human knowledge is not contained in any one language.
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The Sunday School teacher was describing how Lot's wife looked back and
turned into a pillar of salt, when little Jimmy interrupted.
"My Mummy looked back once while she was DRIVING," he announced
triumphantly, "and she turned into a telephone pole!"
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| The sun, reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores, is unpolluted in his beam. (J.Taylor)
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| The taste of low quality lingers long after the satisfaction of low price.
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| The teacher smiled at her Sunday school group and exclaimed, "All right,
class, all those who want to go to Heaven raise your hands." Everybody in
the class had a hand raised, except one boy. "Don't you want to go to
Heaven?" asked the teacher. "I can't ma'am. My mom wants me to come
straight home."
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The teenage daughter, Cathy, had just been given family car privileges. One Friday night she returned home from a party late. The next morning her father went out to the driveway to get the newspaper and came back into the house frowning.
At 11:30 AM Cathy sleepily walked into the kitchen to face the question "What time did you get in last night?"
"Not too late, Dad."
"Then I'll have to talk with the paperboy about putting my paper under the front tire of the car," commented her straight-faced father!
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| The time to ensure that the toilet works is before you really need it.
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| The tip you leave now for lunch would have bought you one twenty years ago.
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| The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. (Benjamin Mays)
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| The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. (Albert Einstein)
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| The trouble is, by the time you have money to burn, the fire has gone out.
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| The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.
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| The truth will set you free...but first, it will make you miserable.
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| The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
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| The trouble with man is two-fold; he cannot learn truths which are too complicated.. he forgets truths which are too simple.
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| The trouble with work is - it's so daily.
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| The truth is like ice water, it shocks you when it hits you, but no one's ever died from it.
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| The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
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| The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. (Lord Chesterfield)
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The wages of sin is death.
Repent before payday.
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| The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton)
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| The way to make the cold winter go fast is to sign a note in October that becomes due in six months.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them.
And the way you
treat them is what they become. (Johann W. Von Goeth)
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| The weak can never Forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the Strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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| The weakest Christians are those who know that they need to pray . . . and yet don't pray. (Daniel O.C.)
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| The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. (Arab proverb)
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love.
Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men. (Martin Luther)
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| The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you.
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| The willow knows what the storm does not; the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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| The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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| The woman who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right.... But she is more often left.
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| The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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| The woods are always empty if you're a poor hunter.
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| The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
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| The word of God will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the word of God.
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| The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page. (Augustine)
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| The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. (Sean O'Casey)
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| The world is composed of givers and takers..the takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
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| The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. (Robert Frost)
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| The world is like a beehive: We all enter by the same door but we live in
different cells.
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| The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't
be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.
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| The world may be your oyster, but it doesn't mean you'll get its pearl.
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| The world was not given to us by our parents, it was lent to us by our children!
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| The world would run a lot smoother if more men knew how to dance.
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| They are happiest who have power to gather wisdom from a flower. (Mary Howitt)
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| They have all sorts of new services today. Now they've got a dial-a-prayer service for atheists. You call a number and nobody answers.
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| The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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| They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. (Garrison Keillor)
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| They say you can't really know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes.
I say if they've got itsy-bitsy feet or some kind of foot disease, I don't wanna know 'em!
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| The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.
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| Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. (Goethe)
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| Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. (Henry Ford)
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| Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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