A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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