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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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English 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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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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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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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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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish 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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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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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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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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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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