A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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While we teach, we learn. ~Seneca
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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