He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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