Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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