He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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