Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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