War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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