Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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