If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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