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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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
#quotes #martin-amis #novels

Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
#quotes #henry-david-thoreau #night #music

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

Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
#proverbs #singing #happiness

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
#quotes #louisa-may-alcott #hero

If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
#quotes #earl-lloyd #competition

If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanses-proverbs #reading #conformity

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #praying #helping

What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #debt

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #hypocrisy

The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
#proverbs #swedish-proverbs #friendship #happiness #sorrow

Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverb #ranks

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
#quotes #hanneli-mustaparta #inspiration #work #music

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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