When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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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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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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