Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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