Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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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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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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