A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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