Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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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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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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