May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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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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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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