He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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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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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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