You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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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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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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