To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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