To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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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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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English 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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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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