A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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