The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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