Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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