He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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