For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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