A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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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 think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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