The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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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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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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