A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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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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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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