Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French 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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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~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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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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