I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
#quotes #frank-black #music #rules

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #medicine #doctors

If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
#proverbs #love

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
#proverbs #hungarian-proverbs #human #apple #adam-and-eve

Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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