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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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proverbiosWhere life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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