It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Atrial fibrillation can be taken care of. The point is that it is manageable. Everybody is different and will have different ways of managing whatever they need, and their doctor will have ways of managing theirs. But I think the first key is just to know it exists, know whether you have it, and know what the risks are and take care of yourself! ~Howie Mandel
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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