You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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