Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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