A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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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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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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