When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories. ~Richard Li
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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