An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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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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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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