Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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