It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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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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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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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen 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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese 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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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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