I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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