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Want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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Fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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I did not just fall in love, I made a parachute jump.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I was a Southerner and had the map of Dixie on my tongue.
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There is no agony like bearing an untold story within you.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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Belief in magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
January 7, 1891
Died:
January 28, 1960
(aged 69)
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