I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
#quotes #virginia-postrel #jeans #society

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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