Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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