A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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