A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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