Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese 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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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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