A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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