The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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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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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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