Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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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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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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