Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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