Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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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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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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