No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen 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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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~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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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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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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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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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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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 the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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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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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese 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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