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"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale." »Johnson
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"That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion." »Robin Green
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"He was as fresh as is the month of May." »Chaucer
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"You are looking as fresh as paint." »F. E. Smedley
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"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." »Euripides
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"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes." »Thomas W. Higginson
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"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it." »Alice Walker
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." »Robert South
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"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes." »Fritz Kunkel
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"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." »Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." »Judith Martin
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"Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." »Julia Child
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"When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much." »Richard Olton
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." »Mary Pickford
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"The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties." »Emil Nolde
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"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites." »Quintilian
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"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it." »Samuel Johnson
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies" »Erich Fromm
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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts." »Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
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"Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal." »Bhartrihari
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"Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own." »Michael Crichton, Prey
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"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." »J. Krishnamurti
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"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us." »Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
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"From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor." »Joseph Addison
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"The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." »Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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