A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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