Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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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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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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