Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth; at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. ~Eileen Claussen
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English 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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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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