A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental 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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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