A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian 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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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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