If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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