It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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