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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.


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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.



If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.



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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.



Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.



We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.



Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.



Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.



The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.



It's what you do that makes your soul.

It's what you do that makes your soul.



Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.





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Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.



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I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.



As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.




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