On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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