Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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