When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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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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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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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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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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