I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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