If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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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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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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