Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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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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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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