At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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