Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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