I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish 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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