Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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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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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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