Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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