A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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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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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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