"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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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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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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