Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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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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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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