"It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear."
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"Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre."
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"Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it."
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"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."
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"Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it."
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"If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow."
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"Make fair agreements and stick to them"
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"If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."
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"Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life."
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"Be flexible, but stick to your principles."
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"My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one."
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"What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh."
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"I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick."
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"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
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"If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start."
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"Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick."
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"Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature."
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"Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it."
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"Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan."
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"Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success."
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