Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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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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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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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 garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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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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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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