Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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