Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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