Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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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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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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