A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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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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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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