He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience. ~Michael Perlis
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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