No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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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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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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