Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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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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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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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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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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