A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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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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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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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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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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