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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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quotistNo brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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