Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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