Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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