I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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