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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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quotistVerse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
#quotes #michael-j-fox #nature #life #humility
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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