Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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