Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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